Evaluation of Choroidal Thickness in Amblyopia Using Enhanced Depth Imaging Optical Coherence Tomography

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2015

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Taylor & Francis Inc

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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

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Purpose: To evaluate the choroidal thickness (CT) in hyperopic anisometropic amblyopic eyes, fellow non-amblyopic eyes, and age-matched normal eyes, using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Materials and methods: In total 53 subjects (17.8 +/- 11.0 years, mean +/- SD) with hyperopic anisometropic amblyopia (AE) and 53 age-matched controls (17.7 +/- 11.0 years) were included in this prospective study. Each subject underwent a dilated eye examination, cycloplegic refraction and axial length (AL) measurement using Nidek AL-Scan optical biometer (Nidek CO, Aichi, Japan). The CT of subfoveal area and at a radius of 1 and 3mm around the fovea was determined using the enhanced depth imaging program of a SD-OCT (Cirrus HD OCT, Carl-Zeiss Meditec, Dublin, CA). CT, AL and spherical equivalent refraction (SER) of the amblyopic eyes were compared to that of the fellow and control eyes. Results: The mean subfoveal CTwas 305.6 +/- 26.0 mm in the amblyopic eyes, 282.6 +/- 30.7 mm in the fellow eyes and 280.1 +/- 8.8 in the control eyes. The subfoveal choroid in amblyopic eyes was significantly thicker than that of the fellow eyes and control eyes (p<0.001). There was a significant negative correlation between the subfoveal CT and the AL in amblyopic (r=-0.298, p=0.03) eyes but not in the control and fellow eyes. Conclusions: The subfoveal choroid of eyes with hyperopic AE is significantly thicker than that of the fellow eye and the age-matched controls. Hence, CT seems to be effected in AE.

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Amblyopia; choroidal thickness; enhanced depth imaging; hyperopic anisometropia; optical coherence tomography

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Current Eye Research

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40

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10

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