Macular Vascular Microcirculation in Eyes With Open-angle Glaucoma Using Different Visual Field Severity Classification Systems.

ABSTRACT:

Precis

We found significant differences in macular vascular microcirculation between normal and glaucomatous eyes using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Macular vascular microcirculation changes also showed significant correlations with visual field (VF) severity classification systems.

Purpose

To correlate VF severity defined by different classification systems and macular vascular microcirculation in eyes with glaucoma using OCTA.

Patients and methods

Twenty normal and 58 open-angle glaucoma (OAG) eyes were scanned using a swept-source OCTA (Plex Elite 9000) and macular vascular microcirculation was measured by calculating the overall blood flux index (BFI) and vessel area density (VAD) over the entire 6×6 mm area excluding the big retinal vessels. G

SUBMITTER: Bojikian KD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436114 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature