scholarly journals An Assessment of Vitreous Degeneration in Eyes with Vitreomacular Traction and Macular Holes

2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Quraish Ghadiali ◽  
Sarwar Zahid ◽  
Rosa Dolz-Marco ◽  
Anna Tan ◽  
Michael Engelbert

Purpose. To compare the stages of vitreous degeneration in patients with vitreomacular traction (VMT) and macular holes (MH). Methods. A retrospective study was performed analyzing stages of vitreous degeneration of eyes with VMT or MH using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). An analogous review was performed on a control group of eyes with contralateral posterior vitreous detachments. Thirty-four eyes with VMT/MH and 39 control eyes were reviewed. Results. Twenty-seven VMT/MH eyes and 31 control eyes were included. Eyes with VMT/MH demonstrated significantly earlier stages of vitreous degeneration when compared to the control group (p=0.048) despite significantly greater age (p=0.032). Conclusions. Vitreoretinal interface disease is more often associated with a formed vitreous and an intact premacular bursa. This is contrary to previous assumptions implicating degeneration of vitreous as a precipitating factor of interface disease when in conjunction with abnormal vitreomacular separation.

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoreh Barak ◽  
Mark A. Ihnen ◽  
Shlomit Schaal

The introduction of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) has enhanced Vitreoretinal Interface (VRI) imaging considerably and facilitated the diagnosis, followup, prognosis determination, and management of VRI-associated pathologies. HR-OCT became a common practical tool seen in almost every ophthalmology practice. Knowledge of SD-OCT image interpretation and recognition of pathologies are required for all ophthalmologists. This paper methodically reviews the normal aging process of the VRI and discusses several commonly encountered VRI pathologies. The role of SD-OCT imaging in VRI-associated disorders such as posterior vitreous detachment, vitreomacular traction syndrome, idiopathic epiretinal membranes, lamellar holes, pseudoholes, and full thickness macular holes is portrayed. Future perspectives of new OCT technologies based on SD-OCT are discussed.


Optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is in use for about 20 years, facilitated the evaluation of the vitreoretinal interface, improved our understanding of its pathologic processes, and paved the way to new treatment approaches. By order of appearance, time-domain, spectral-domain, and swept-source OCT technologies redefined vitreoretinal interface disorders and their treatment modalities.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Chiku ◽  
Takao Hirano ◽  
Yoshiaki Takahashi ◽  
Ayako Tuchiya ◽  
Marie Nakamura ◽  
...  

AbstractPosterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a separation between the posterior vitreous cortex and internal limiting membrane. Although PVD was historically considered an acute event, recent studies using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) revealed a gradual progression of PVD in healthy subjects. Although SD-OCT improved PVD studies, the narrow imaging angle and long examination time were problematic to allow wide angle capture. The Xephilio OCT-S1 (Canon), a swept-source OCT (SS-OCT) device, can obtain up to 23-mm of widefield B-scan images in a single acquisition. We used this widefield SS-OCT to quantitatively evaluate the PVD stage in 214 healthy subjects aged 4–89 years and determine whether PVD stages differ between the bilateral eyes of each patient. Age was significantly positively correlated with the overall PVD stage (ρ = 0.7520, P < 0.001). Interestingly, partial PVD occurred in children as young as 5 years, indicating that initial PVD onset may occur much earlier than previously reported. Furthermore, PVD stages of the bilateral eyes were highly consistent in 183 subjects (85.5%). Widefield 23-mm SS-OCT thus revealed that PVD started earlier than anticipated, and age was correlated with the symmetry of PVD stage. Widefield 23-mm SS-OCT may also be clinically useful for the evaluation of diseased eyes.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Cristina Georgeon ◽  
Ilanite Marciano ◽  
Roxane Cuyaubère ◽  
Otman Sandali ◽  
Nacim Bouheraoua ◽  
...  

Objective. To compare the results and repeatability of the corneal thickness (CT) and epithelial thickness (ET) maps provided by Swept-Source-Optical Coherence Tomography with those of Spectral-Domain-OCT in normal eyes. Methods. 30 normal eyes of 30 patients were assessed by 3 trained operators with SS-OCT and SD-OCT. Results. The central and minimum ET obtained with both devices were correlated: central ET, r = 0.86, p < 0.05 ; minimum ET, r = 0.72, p < 0.05 . Compared with SD-OCT, SS-OCT tended to underestimate these figures by 1.4 and 1.9 μm on average. The central and minimum CT obtained with both devices were strongly correlated: central CT, r = 0.994, p < 0.05 ; minimum CT, r = 0.995, p < 0.05 . SS-OCT tended to overestimate these figures by 11 and 14 μm on average. Repeatability was good for both devices with a mean coefficient of variation of measurements <6% for ET and <2% for CT. Interoperator variability (standard deviation and COV) was significantly higher for SS-OCT than for SD-OCT for all local epithelial thicknesses and significantly lower for the central CT and several local corneal thicknesses, whereas no significant differences between both technologies were found for the central and minimum ET and the minimum CT. Conclusion. SS-OCT and SD-OCT provide reproducible measurements of CT and ET in normal corneas with a strong correlation between both technologies. However, both technologies are not interchangeable when the main thickness parameters (i.e., central and minimum CT and minimum ET) are used for diagnosing early keratoconus or calculating the expected residual stromal bed thickness before corneal refractive surgery or anterior lamellar keratoplasty.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun On Lee ◽  
Xiujuan Zhang ◽  
Shumin Tang ◽  
Li Jia Chen ◽  
Carol Cheung ◽  
...  

Abstract PURPOSE: Choroidal thickness is associated with many ocular conditions, interchangeability among different generations of optical coherence tomography is therefore important for both research purpose and clinical application. Hence, we compared choroidal thickness measurements between spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) and swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT) in healthy pediatric eyes.METHODS: Children from the population–based Hong Kong Children Eye Study were recruited. Choroidal thickness was measured by both devices. Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was used to compare the measurements.RESULTS: A total of 114 children with mean age of 7.38±0.82 years were included. The central foveal choroidal thickness (CFCT) measured by SD-OCT and SS-OCT was 273.24±54.29μm and 251.84±47.12μm respectively. Inter-device correlation coefficient was 0.840 (95%CI: 0.616-0.918). However, choroidal thickness obtained by SD-OCT was significantly thicker than that measured by SS-OCT with a mean difference of 21.40±33.13μm (P<0.001). Bland-Altman limit of agreement on the relative difference scale for SD-OCT/SS-OCT was 86.33μm. Validated conversion equation for translating SD-OCT CFCT measurement into SS-OCT was SS-OCT = 35.261 + 0.810 x SD-OCT. CONCLUSIONS: ICC shows an acceptable agreement between SD-OCT and SS-OCT, however, there was a significant inter-device difference of choroidal thickness measurements in normal children eyes. Therefore, the measurements are not interchangeable.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Chiku ◽  
Takao Hirano ◽  
Yoshiaki Takahashi ◽  
Ayako Tuchiya ◽  
Marie Nakamura ◽  
...  

Abstract Posterior vitreous detachment (PVD) is a separation between the posterior vitreous cortex and internal limiting membrane. Although PVD was historically considered an acute event, recent studies using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) revealed a gradual progression of PVD in healthy subjects. Although SD-OCT improved PVD studies, the narrow imaging angle and long examination time were problematic to allow wide angle capture. The Xephilio OCT-S1 (Canon), a swept source OCT (SS-OCT) device, can obtain up to 23-mm of widefield B-scan images in a single acquisition. We used this widefield SS-OCT to quantitatively evaluate the PVD stage in 214 healthy subjects aged 4–89 years and determine whether PVD stages differ between the bilateral eyes of each patient. Age was significantly positively correlated with overall PVD stage (ρ=0.7520, P<0.001). Interestingly, partial PVD occurred in children as young as 5 years old, indicating that initial PVD onset may occur much earlier than previously reported.Furthermore, PVD stages of the bilateral eyes were highly consistent in 183 subjects (85.5%). Widefield 23-mm SS-OCT thus revealed that PVD started earlier than anticipated, and age is correlated with the symmetry of PVD stage. Widefield 23-mm SS-OCT may also be clinically useful for the evaluation of diseased eyes.


2020 ◽  
pp. bjophthalmol-2020-317983
Author(s):  
Edward S Lu ◽  
Ying Cui ◽  
Rongrong Le ◽  
Ying Zhu ◽  
Jay C Wang ◽  
...  

AimsTo compare the efficacy of diabetic retinal neovascularisation (NV) detection using the widefield swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (WF SS-OCTA) vitreoretinal interface (VRI) Angio slab and SS-OCT VRI Structure slab.MethodsA prospective, observational study was performed at Massachusetts Eye and Ear from January 2019 to June 2020. Patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR), patients with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy and patients with diabetes but without diabetic retinopathy were included. All patients were imaged with WF SS-OCTA using the 12×12 mm Angio scan protocol centred on the fovea and optic disc. The en-face SS-OCTA VRI Angio slab and SS-OCT VRI Structure slab were evaluated for the presence or absence of NV. SS-OCTA B-scan was used to classify NV according to cross-sectional morphology (forward, tabletop or flat). All statistical analyses were performed using SPSS V.26.0.ResultsOne hundred and forty-two eyes of 89 participants were included in the study. VRI Angio detected NV at higher rates compared with VRI Structure (p<0.05). Combining VRI Angio and Structure improved detection rates compared with VRI Angio alone (p<0.05). Due to segmentation errors of the internal limiting membrane, NV with flat morphological classification had lower rates of detection on VRI Angio compared with NV with forward and tabletop morphology (p<0.05).ConclusionsWF SS-OCTA 12×12 mm VRI Angio and SS-OCT VRI Structure imaging centred on the fovea and optic disc detected NV with high sensitivity and low false positives. The VRI slab may be useful to diagnose and monitor PDR in clinical practice.


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiamin Xie ◽  
Qiuying Chen ◽  
Jiayi Yu ◽  
Hao Zhou ◽  
Jiangnan He ◽  
...  

Purpose: To investigate the morphologic features and identify the risk factors of myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV).Methods: Eighty-eight eyes of 69 consecutive patients with myopic CNV were included in this study. About 109 eyes of 78 pathologic myopia patients without myopic CNV were randomly selected as the control group. Morphologic features and parameters including scleral thickness (ST), choroidal thickness (CT), posterior staphyloma height and the presence of scleral perforating vessels were obtained and measured by swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Binary logistic regression analysis was performed to identify the risk factors for myopic CNV.Results: Patients with myopic CNV had relatively shorter axial length (P &lt; 0.001) and thicker sclera (P &lt; 0.001) compared to those without. After adjusting age, gender and axial length, thick sclera (OR = 1.333, P &lt; 0.001 per 10-μm increase) and thin choroid (OR = 0.509, P &lt; 0.001 per 10-μm increase) were associated with the presence of myopic CNV. Scleral perforating vessels were detected in the area of myopic CNV in 78.67% of the subjects.Conclusions: A relatively thicker sclera and a thinner choroid are the biological indicators for myopic CNV on SS-OCT. Scleral perforating vessels may also play a pivotal role in the formation of myopic CNV.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yun Ji Lee ◽  
Yeon Jeong Lee ◽  
Jae Yeon Lee ◽  
Suhwan Lee

AbstractThe aim of this study is to compare the scleral thickness of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) eyes with controls using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS OCT). This prospective case control study included 15 patients (15 eyes) with CSC and 15 age and gender matched healthy subjects. All subjects underwent spectral domain OCT with enhanced depth imaging and swept source AS OCT of temporal sclera. We investigated difference in scleral thickness between the two groups and relationship between choroidal and scleral thickness. Among the 15 eyes in the study group, 1 eye had acute CSC, 4 had recurrent CSC, 7 had inactive CSC, and 3 had chronic CSC. There was no significant difference in terms of age, gender, axial length and spherical equivalent between the two groups. The choroidal and scleral thickness of the study group were significantly greater than those of the control group (P < 0.001, P = 0.034). Choroidal thickness was positively correlated with scleral thickness (P = 0.031). A thick sclera along with a thick choroid were demonstrated in CSC eyes using AS OCT. Scleral characteristics might be involved in the pathogenesis of CSC by affecting outflow resistance of venous drainage in choroidal circulation.


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huiping Yao ◽  
Sha Gao ◽  
Xiaoqing Liu ◽  
Yufeng Zhou ◽  
Yu Cheng ◽  
...  

Objective. To determine the influence of phacoemulsification on choroidal vasculature in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) undergoing cataract surgery using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). Methods. The study was conducted in 23 eyes of 23 cataract patients with mild/moderate nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) without diabetic macular edema (DME) and 23 age-matched controls. Choroidal thickness (CT) and choroidal vascularity index (CVI) were measured at baseline and 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery. Results. The baseline CVI in the DR group was significantly lower than that in the control group ( P = 0.001 ). CVI in DR patients after surgery significantly increased compared with preoperative values (all P < 0.001 for 1 week, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery). Postoperative increase of CVI and CT in the DR group was more than in the control group, and the difference was significant 1 month and 3 months after surgery (all P < 0.05 ). Conclusion. Patients with mild/moderate NPDR have reduced CVI compared with nondiabetic patients at baseline; diabetic cataract surgery tended to induce more increase in CVI and CT as compared with nondiabetic patients. This trial is registered with NCT04499768.


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