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Purpose: Swept Source Optical Coherence Tomography validates lamina cribrosa anomaly in optic disk pit. Method: Observational case report. Results: A 25-year-old African American male presented with decreased vision in right eye of 4 days duration. Best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) for distance in right eye was 20/200 and in left eye was 20/20. Dilated fundus examination of right eye showed serous macular detachment of entire posterior pole along with an optic pit on temporal margin of optic disk. En-face image of the optic disk on Swept source OCT (SS-OCT) confirmed defect in the lamina cribrosa in the right ...

Purpose: To report the retinal findings and evolution of a visually symptomatic case of West Nile virus meningoencephalitis. Methods: Case report. Main outcome measures include serologic testing for West Nile virus as well as longitudinal funduscopic examination, fluorescein angiography, and spectral domain optical coherence tomography. Results: A 47-year-old diabetic man was referred for ophthalmic evaluation after hospitalization and treatment for West Nile meningoencephalitis. The patient presented with decreased vision and black spots in the right eye. Baseline visual acuity was 20/100 in the right eye and 20/40 in the left. Funduscopic examination and fluorescein angiography revealed multiple outer-retinal ...

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Purpose: To describe the quantitative optical coherence tomography angiography analysis of the superficial and deep retinal capillary plexus in a case of A29 birdshot chorioretinopathy (BCR) complicated by retinal neovascularization. Methods: Multimodal retinal imaging, including optical coherence tomography angiography with quantitated vessel density analysis of the superficial and deep retinal capillary plexus, was performed in a case of A29 BCR. Capillary density (mm-1) was defined as the total vessel length (mm) per area (mm2). Results: A 39-year-old healthy white man presented with vitreous hemorrhage and retinal neovascularization at baseline. Clinical presentation was consistent with BCR and human leukocyte antigen testing ...

Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has become an important tool for diagnosing optic nerve disease. The structural details and reproducibility of OCT continues to improve with further advances in technology. However, artifacts and misinterpretation of OCT can lead to clinical misdiagnosis of diseases if they go unrecognized. Evidence Acquisition: A literature review using PubMed combined with clinical and research experience. Results: We describe the most common artifacts and errors in interpretation seen on OCT in both optic nerve and ganglion cell analyses. We provide examples of the artifacts, discuss the causes, and provide methods of detecting them. In addition, we ...

Purpose: To compare the diagnostic performance and evaluate diagnostic agreement for early glaucoma detection between a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (CSLO) and a spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Patients and Methods: Fifty-five eyes of 55 open-angle glaucoma patients and 42 eyes of 42 healthy control subjects were enrolled in this observational, cross-sectional study. All participants underwent comprehensive ophthalmic examination, visual field testing, and optic nerve head and retinal nerve fiber layer imaging by CSLO (HRT3) and SD-OCT (Spectralis OCT). The agreements of categorical classifications were evaluated ([kappa] statistics). Area under receiver operating characteristic curves (AUROC) and sensitivity at 95% fixed ...

Purpose: To develop a robust, sensitive, and fully automatic algorithm to quantify diabetes-related capillary dropout using optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography (OCTA). Methods: A 1,050-nm wavelength, 400 kHz A-scan rate swept-source optical coherence tomography prototype was used to perform volumetric optical coherence tomography angiography imaging over 3 mm x 3 mm fields in normal controls (n = 5), patients with diabetes without diabetic retinopathy (DR) (n = 7), patients with nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) (n = 9), and patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) (n = 5); for each patient, one eye was imaged. A fully automatic algorithm to quantify intercapillary areas was ...

Purpose: To evaluate choroidal structural changes in exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using choroidal vascularity index computed from image binarization on spectral domain optical coherence tomography with enhanced depth imaging. Methods: This prospective case series included 42 consecutive patients with unilateral exudative AMD. Choroidal images were segmented into luminal area and stromal area. Choroidal vascularity index was defined as the ratio of luminal area to total choroid area. Mean choroidal vascularity index and mean choroidal thickness between study and fellow eyes of the same patient with dry AMD were compared using Student's t-test. Results: There was a significantly lower ...

We previously reported 2 new methods, anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT) and polymethylmethacrylate particles suspended in fluorescein solution (PPF), for the evaluation of tear clearance and rapid tear flow after blinking (tear Krehbiel flow). Here, we investigated age-related OCT tear clearance and tear film thickness (TFT) and the potential correlation of OCT tear clearance and PPF velocity indicative of tear Krehbiel flow. Normal subjects separated into young and older groups received 5 [mu]L of saline solution into the lower conjunctival sac, and an image of the central lower eyelid tear meniscus was captured by AS-OCT immediately and 30 ...

Purpose: To study the relationship between the location of cystoid spaces and retinal capillary nonperfusion areas in diabetic cystoid macular edema (DCME). Methods: In this retrospective study, 24 eyes of 21 patients with chronic DCME were followed using optical coherence tomography angiography. The capillary density of the superficial capillary plexus and deep capillary plexus was measured using AngioAnalytics software in all DCME eyes and in 20 healthy controls. Diabetic cystoid macular edema improved spontaneously or after treatment in 11 eyes. Results: The intraretinal cystoid spaces were surrounded by capillary-flow void areas in the superficial capillary plexus in 71% of cases ...

Purpose: To evaluate whether high-resolution optical coherence tomography (HR-OCT) can aid in differentiation of inflammatory versus noninflammatory causes of peripheral corneal thinning. Methods: Retrospective chart review of 10 patients with peripheral corneal thinning and their respective slit-lamp photographs and HR-OCT images. Results: Ten patients were identified who had peripheral corneal thinning and HR-OCT images. Five had a clinical history consistent with Terrien marginal degeneration (TMD), whereas 5 had thinning believed to be inflammatory in origin. In the eyes with presumed TMD, patients denied pain or inflammation. HR-OCT images demonstrated stromal thinning in the presence of an intact epithelium. The stroma ...

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Abstract: Spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) is fast becoming the current standard of care for the detection and assessment of diabetic macular edema. With the application of SD-OCT for imaging of retinal microstructure and measurement of retinal thickness, new information regarding disease characteristics has been gathered, which was unrecognized previously. Retinal thickness measurements on SD-OCT have also been used for deciding the management and monitoring of the disease. Since its development, OCT has enhanced the understanding of retinal anatomical changes in diabetic retinopathy. Several authors have used SD-OCT to classify diabetic macular edema with the purpose of correlating the ...

Small-guage sutureless vitrectomy has become a preferred vitreoretinal surgical technique...

Fourier of spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) has made a profound impact on how physicians diagnose and treat many retinal disorders.

SD-OCT is a fast, noncontact, and noninvasive method of imaging intraocular tissue.

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of nocturnal intermittent peritoneal dialysis (NIPD) on intraocular pressure (IOP) and anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) parameters. Systemic changes associated with NIPD were also analyzed. Methods: Observational study. Nonglaucomatous patients on NIPD underwent systemic and ocular assessment including mean arterial pressure (MAP), body weight, serum osmolarity, visual acuity, IOP measurement, and ASOCT within 2 hours both before and after NIPD. The Zhongshan Angle Assessment Program (ZAAP) was used to measure ASOCT parameters including anterior chamber depth, anterior chamber width, anterior chamber area, anterior chamber volume, lens vault, angle opening distance, trabecular-iris space area, and ...

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to evaluate the clinical efficacy of swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT), we compared the intradevice repeatability of thickness measurements obtained using SS-OCT to that of measurements obtained using spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT), and assessed the interdevice agreement of thickness measurements. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional prospective study involved 3 consecutive measurements of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (PP-RNFL) and ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness in healthy subjects, using 2 different OCT systems. Intraclass correlation coefficients (ICCs) and coefficients of variability were calculated and compared for repeatability and agreement between study ...

Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to determine whether there are different patterns of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning as measured by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for 4 subtypes of open angle glaucoma (OAG): primary OAG (POAG), normal tension glaucoma (NTG), pseudoexfoliation glaucoma (PXG), and pigmentary glaucoma (PDG) and to compare them with normal controls. Materials and Methods: SD-OCT RNFL thickness values were measured for 4 quadrants and for 4 sectors (ie, superior-nasal, superior-temporal, inferior-nasal, and inferior-temporal). Differences in RNFL thickness values between groups were analyzed using analysis of variance. Paired t tests ...

Abstract: Using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) to observe the morphology and epithelial thickness (ET) of the palisades of Vogt (POV), and to evaluate the role of age and region on these structures. One hundred twelve eyes of 112 healthy subjects were enrolled and divided into 4 groups: A (0–19), B (20–39), C (40–59), and D (≥60 years old). RTvue-100 OCT was applied on the cornea and the limbus. The morphology of the subepithelial stroma underneath the epithelium of POV was classified into typical and atypical types. Maximum ET of POV was measured manually from OCT images ...

We report an unusual case of new-generation drug-eluting stent fracture, diagnosed and managed with aid of optical coherence tomography

Purpose: To investigate the microvasculature changes of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) defects in glaucoma. Design: The study design is a case report. Patients and Methods: Four glaucomatous eyes were included in this observational cross-sectional study. The microvasculature changes of RNFL defects were examined using optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography. Results: Three eyes had apparent wedge-shaped capillary dropout on OCT angiography. In the fourth eye, detection of wedge-shaped capillary loss was difficult because of overall capillary drop out due to advanced glaucoma. Capillary dropout detection by OCT angiography was correlated with visual field loss and RNFL defect detection by regular ...

Background/Purpose: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography is a new noninvasive method to measure peripapillary microcirculation in various retinal layers, separately. In this case series, we investigate whether large medical intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction (>50% of the untreated baseline value) to IOP<=18 mm Hg influences peripapillary angioflow density (PAFD, percentage of the analyzed retinal area) in the retinal nerve fiber layer in high pressure (IOP>=35 mm Hg) ocular hypertensive and glaucoma eyes. Methods: The AngioVue OCT (software version 2015.100.0.33) was used for PAFD measurements in 6 eyes of 4 consecutive newly detected young patients (age ...