Fluorescein angiography versus optical coherence tomography for diagnosis of uveitic macular edema.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate agreement between fluorescein angiography (FA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) results for diagnosis of macular edema in patients with uveitis.

Design

Multicenter cross-sectional study.

Participants

Four hundred seventy-nine eyes with uveitis from 255 patients.

Methods

The macular status of dilated eyes with intermediate uveitis, posterior uveitis, or panuveitis was assessed via Stratus-3 OCT and FA. To evaluate agreement between the diagnostic approaches, κ statistics were used.

Main outcome measures

Macular thickening (MT; center point thickness, ≥ 240 μm per reading center grading of OCT images) and macular leakage (ML; central subfield fluorescein leakage, ≥ 0.44 disc areas per reading center grading of FA images), and ag

SUBMITTER: Kempen JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3758459 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature