Identifying a clinically meaningful threshold for change in uveitic macular edema evaluated by optical coherence tomography.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify a clinically meaningful threshold for change in retinal thickness measured by optical coherence tomography for patients with uveitic macular edema using correlation with change in visual acuity.

Design

Cross-sectional and longitudinal study.

Methods

One hundred twenty-eight eyes (101 individuals) with macular edema enrolled in the Multicenter Uveitis Steroid Treatment (MUST) trial. At enrollment and after 6 months of follow-up, retinal thickness was measured at the central subfield with time-domain optical coherence tomography and visual acuity was measured with logarithmic (Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study) visual acuity charts. Participants were classified as having macular edema if the retinal thickness was 260 μm or more.

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SUBMITTER: Sugar EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3223264 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature