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EVALUATION OF RETINAL VESSEL DIAMETERS IN EYES WITH ACTIVE CENTRAL SEROUS CHORIORETINOPATHY
- Source :
- Retina. 41:861-866
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- PURPOSE To compare the retinal vessel diameters of healthy eyes and active central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) eyes, and to evaluate possible effect of retinal vessel diameter alterations on the pathogenesis of CSC. METHODS This retrospective study included 39 patients with CSC and 34 healthy individuals. Spectralis optical coherence tomography + HRA with an infrared reflectance image were used to evaluate structure of retinal vessels in the circular region around the optic disc. For each eye, vertical inner and outer diameters of the four major arteries and veins were measured using infrared reflectance images, and vessel wall thicknesses were also calculated based on inner and outer diameters. RESULTS The 304 vessels of the 39 active CSC eyes and 266 vessels of the 34 healthy eyes were used in the analyses. The mean venous wall thickness in active CSC eyes was significantly thicker than that in healthy eyes (40.0 ± 4.9 vs. 33.5 ± 4.1 μm, P = 0.001), whereas the mean venous inner diameter in active CSC eyes was significantly narrower (52.5 ± 9.7 vs. 61.3 ± 8.1 μm, P = 0.001). Also, the mean venous outer diameter was wider in CSC eyes, albeit not significantly (131.1 ± 7.0 vs. 128.5 ± 8.4 μm, P = 0.074). CONCLUSION Our results suggest that the alterations of retinal venous diameters may play a potential role in the pathogenesis of CSC in addition to alterations in choroidal thickness.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Optic Disk
03 medical and health sciences
chemistry.chemical_compound
0302 clinical medicine
Optical coherence tomography
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Inner diameter
Fluorescein Angiography
Aged
Retrospective Studies
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Retinal Vessels
Retinal
General Medicine
Middle Aged
eye diseases
Venous wall
Retinal vessel
Serous fluid
medicine.anatomical_structure
Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
chemistry
Infrared reflectance
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
Female
sense organs
business
Tomography, Optical Coherence
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Optic disc
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0275004X
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Retina
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....1b619818f9dbe9b33fd46824427c7276