LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF DIABETIC CHOROIDOPATHY IN PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY TREATED WITH PANRETINAL PHOTOCOAGULATION USING WIDEFIELD SWEPT-SOURCE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

Autor: Yingying Shi, Philip J. Rosenfeld, Ruikang K. Wang, Mengxi Shen, Jonathan F. Russell, William J. Feuer, Hao Zhou, Giovanni Gregori
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Retina
ISSN: 0275-004X
DOI: 10.1097/iae.0000000000003375
Popis: Widefield swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging was used to characterize choroidal thickness and vascularity at baseline in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and longitudinally after panretinal photocoagulation (PRP).Patients with treatment-naive PDR were imaged at baseline and at 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after PRP. Previously validated algorithms were used to calculate the mean choroidal thickness (MCT) and choroidal vascularity index (CVI) in 5 regions of 12 mm × 12 mm scans.Fourteen PDR eyes were included. Baseline MCT in PDR eyes did not differ significantly from normal eyes, but CVI measurements in PDR eyes were lower in all regions (P0.001-0.008). After PRP, MCT measurements in PDR eyes were significantly lower at 1 month and 3 months in all regions (P0.001-0.005) except the fovea (P = 0.074). However, CVI measurements did not change over time in any region after PRP.The choroid in PDR eyes has a smaller CVI than that in normal eyes. After PRP, the choroidal thickness decreases outside the fovea, but the CVI remains constant, which suggests that a relative decrease in choroidal vascularity persists. These widefield swept-source OCT results are consistent with choroidal alterations found in histopathological reports of diabetic choroidopathy.
Databáze: OpenAIRE