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OCT angiography quantifying choriocapillary circulation in idiopathic macular hole before and after surgery.
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- Swept-Source OCT Angiography Features in Patients after Macular Hole Surgery.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022Article
- Comparison of Idiopathic Macular Hole Interventions Using Frequency Domain Optical Coherence Tomography and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.Disease markers · 2022Article
- Morphological and Functional Features in Patients with Idiopathic Macular Hole Treatment.International journal of general medicine · 2022Article
- Early Vascular and Functional Changes after Vitreoretinal Surgery: A Comparison between the Macular Hole and Epiretinal Membrane.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Evaluation of macular vessel density changes after vitrectomy with silicone oil tamponade in patients with rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.International journal of ophthalmology · 2021Article
- Evaluation of the different thresholding strategies for quantifying choriocapillaris using optical coherence tomography angiography.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2020Article
- Hole diameter ratio for prediction of anatomical outcomes in stage III or IV idiopathic macular holes.BMC ophthalmology · 2020Article
- Literature Review of Surgical Treatment in Idiopathic Full-Thickness Macular Hole.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2020Review
- Choroidal thickness in macular holes.International ophthalmology · 2019Article
- Imaging analysis with optical coherence tomography angiography after primary repair of macula-off rhegmatogenous retinal detachment.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2019Article
- Visualizing choriocapillaris using swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography with various probe beam sizes.Biomedical optics express · 2019Article
- Characteristics and Risk Factors for Spontaneous Closure of Idiopathic Full-Thickness Macular Hole.Journal of ophthalmology · 2019Review
- Optical coherence tomography angiography features in patients with idiopathic full-thickness macular hole, before and after surgical treatment.Clinical interventions in aging · 2019Article
- Inner Retinal Layer and Outer Retinal Layer Findings after Macular Hole Surgery Assessed by means of Optical Coherence Tomography.Journal of ophthalmology · 2019Review
- Traumatic Macular Hole: Diagnosis, Natural History, and Management.Journal of ophthalmology · 2019Review
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Abstract
purposeTo investigate the choriocapillary circulation in the macular area for eyes with unilateral idiopathic macular hole (IMH) before and after vitrectomy using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).
methodsA prospective study of 25 patients with unilateral IMH who underwent vitrectomy and 30 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were recruited. Choriocapillary circulation was measured by OCTA to obtain two measurements: flow area and parafovea vessel density.
resultsFlow area and parafovea vessel density of choriocapillaris in the macular area were significantly smaller and lower in IMH eyes than unaffected fellow eyes and healthy control eyes (p < 0.001), while no difference was found between unaffected fellow eyes and the healthy control eyes. One month after vitrectomy, the choriocapillary flow area and parafovea vessel density of IMH eyes significantly increased compared to the peroperative measurements (p < 0.001). Association analysis found that choriocapillary circulation measurements were negatively correlated with macular hole diameters in IMH eyes (p < 0.001), but was independent with best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA).
conclusionsThe macular choriocapillary flow area and parafovea vessel density in IMH eyes were lower than those of normal controls. In addition, the choriocapillary circulation was negatively correlated with macular hole diameter. Our findings suggested that choroidal circulation in the macular area might be affected by the intact structure of the fovea.
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