scholarly journals Effects of Methotrexate in a Rabbit Model of In-Stent Neoatherosclerosis: An Optical Coherence Tomography Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruoxi Zhang ◽  
Shuyuan Chen ◽  
Hui Zhang ◽  
Qi Liu ◽  
Jianpang Xing ◽  
...  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kavya Devarajan ◽  
Hon Shing Ong ◽  
Nyein C. Lwin ◽  
Jacqueline Chua ◽  
Leopold Schmetterer ◽  
...  

AbstractOptical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a well-established non-invasive retinal vascular imaging technique. It has been recently adapted to image the anterior segment and has shown good potential to image corneal vascularisation. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the usefulness of OCTA to monitor regression of corneal vessels following anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) treatment using a previously established corneal vascularisation rabbit model. The regression of vessels following the treatment with aflibercept and ranibizumab anti-VEGFs using both topical instillation and sub-conjunctival injection was quantified using OCTA and compared with ICGA (indocyanine green angiography). Overall vessel density measurements using OCTA showed good correlation (r = 0.988, p < 0.001) with ICGA, with no significant difference between the two treatment groups (p = 0.795). It was also shown that OCTA provided good repeatability outcomes of the quantitative measurements. Using Bland-Altman plots, vessel growth density values between anti-VEGF treatments were compared to control saline group. It was observed that aflibercept provided longer lasting effect than ranibizumab. We also observed that in both drugs, the topical route of administration topical provided longer regression outcomes compared to one-time sub-conjunctival injection. Thereby, with this pilot study, it was demonstrated that OCTA is a reliable imaging technique to follow-up and monitor corneal vascularisation and its treatment quantitatively.


2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olubunmi Ajose-Popoola ◽  
Erica Su ◽  
Ashley Hamamoto ◽  
Alex Wang ◽  
Joseph C. Jing ◽  
...  

2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (5) ◽  
pp. 990-995
Author(s):  
Benjamin Chia-Meng Tay ◽  
Tzu-Hao Chow ◽  
Beng Koon Ng ◽  
Min He ◽  
Aaron Wei-Tat Gan ◽  
...  

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 034001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Brenner ◽  
Kelly Kreuter ◽  
Johnny Ju ◽  
Sari Mahon ◽  
Lillian Tseng ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (01) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Matthäus ◽  
Sebastian Dochow ◽  
Kokila D. Egodage ◽  
Bernd F. Romeike ◽  
Bernhard R. Brehm ◽  
...  

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