1. Association of foveal avascular zone with the metamorphopsia in epiretinal membrane
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Shinnosuke Yamaoka, Mutsumi Watanabe, Hiroto Terasaki, Taiji Sakamoto, Hidetaka Yamaji, Hideki Shiihara, Shozo Sonoda, Naoko Kakiuchi, and Toshihiko Uno
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Male ,0301 basic medicine ,Fovea Centralis ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Visual acuity ,genetic structures ,Vision Disorders ,Visual Acuity ,lcsh:Medicine ,Predictive markers ,Severity of Illness Index ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,0302 clinical medicine ,Ophthalmology ,Humans ,Medicine ,Metamorphopsia ,lcsh:Science ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Best corrected visual acuity ,Multidisciplinary ,business.industry ,lcsh:R ,Epiretinal Membrane ,Retinal ,Mean age ,Foveal avascular zone ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,University hospital ,Retinal diseases ,eye diseases ,030104 developmental biology ,chemistry ,030221 ophthalmology & optometry ,Female ,lcsh:Q ,medicine.symptom ,Epiretinal membrane ,business ,Tomography, Optical Coherence - Abstract
This study was to investigate the relationship between the metamorphopsia and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) parameter in eyes with epiratinal membrane (ERM). We studied patients with an ERM visited retinal service unit at the Kagoshima University Hospital or Shirai Hospital. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), and the degree of metamorphopsia by M -CHARTS™ were evaluated. The 3 × 3 mm optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images of the superficial layer were obtained. Area (mm2), the circularity, eigen value were calculated using ImageJ software. The relationship between visual function, such as best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and metamorphopsia, and FAZ parameters were studied by Pearson’s correlational coefficient. Fifty-four eyes of 51 patients (24 men and 27 women) with an ERM were studied. The mean age of the patients was 69.6 ± 8.20 years. The mean BCVA and metamorphopsia score was 0.31 ± 0.29 logMAR units and 0.49 ± 0.42. There was no significant relationship between BCVA and FAZ parameters. While, metamorphopsia score was significantly and negatively correlated with all of FAZ parameters (area R = − 0.491, P P = 0.004; eigenvalue ratio R = − 0.341; P = 0.012). Multiple regression analysis showed the FAZ area was solely and significantly correlated with metamorphopsia score (β − 0.479, P more...
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- 2020
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