In chronic DCME, cystoid spaces were located within capillary dropout areas. No reperfusion occurred after DCME resolution. The impact of the severity of this nonperfusion on the risk of recurrence of DCME remains to be clarified.
Citation: Vo Kim S, Semoun O, Pedinielli A, Jung C, Miere A, Souied EH. Optical coherence tomography angiography quantitative assessment of exercise-induced variations in retinal vascular plexa of healthy subjects.
Only one of the three methods allowed for the detection of changes from the normal capillary density as early as at the "severe nonproliferative DR" stage due to several refinements from the basic technique. [Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2017;48:378-384.].
Purpose To compare the qualitative and quantitative choroidal neovascularization (CNV) changes after antivascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy in treatment-naïve and treated eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Methods Consecutive patients with neovascular AMD underwent multimodal imaging, including OCTA (AngioPlex, CIRRUS HD-OCT model 5000; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, OH) at baseline and at three monthly follow-up visits. Treatment-naive AMD patients undergoing anti-VEGF loading phase were included in group A, while treated patients were included in group B. Qualitative and quantitative OCTA analyses were performed on outer retina to choriocapillaris (ORCC) slab. CNV size was measured using a free image analysis software (ImageJ, open-source imaging processing software, 2.0.0). Results Twenty-five eyes of 25 patients were enrolled in our study (mean age 78.32 ± 6.8 years): 13 treatment-naïve eyes in group A and 12 treated eyes in group B. While qualitative analysis revealed no significant differences from baseline to follow-up in the two groups, quantitative analysis showed in group A a significant decrease in lesion area (P = 0.023); in group B, no significant change in the lesion area was observed during anti-VEGF therapy (P = 0.93). Conclusion Treatment-naïve and treated eyes with CNV secondary to neovascular AMD respond differently to anti-VEGF therapy. This should be taken into account when using OCTA for CNV follow-up or planning therapeutic strategies.
AO allows differences in reflectivity between medium-large drusen and reticular pseudodrusen to be appreciated. The cone mosaics may be detected as continuous 'bright' hyper-reflective dots overlying/on the border of drusen and pseudodrusen deposits, and possibly as continuous 'dark' hyporeflective dots overlying drusen only.
Adaptive optics allows the appreciation of differences in reflectivity between regions of GA and foveal sparing. Preservation of functional cone photoreceptors was demonstrated on en face AO IR images in areas of foveal sparing detected by confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope near-IR autofluorescence.
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