Wider retinal artery trajectories in eyes with macular hole than in fellow eyes of patients with unilateral idiopathic macular hole.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine whether the width of the retinal artery (RA) trajectory was associated with the presence of a macular hole (MH).

Methods

A retrospective cross sectional case-control study was performed. The fundus photographs were rotated 90 degrees, and the coordinates of the best fit curve of the RA trajectory were determined automatically based on these plots using the ImageJ program. The converted coordinates were fit to a second degree polynomial (ax2/100 + bx + c) equation. The width and steepness of the RA trajectory, "a", of the eyes with a MH eye were compared to that of the fellow eyes.

Results

One hundred and ten eyes of 55 consecutive patients (30 women) with a unilateral MH and healthy fellow eyes were analyzed. The mean age was 64.9 years (range 47-

SUBMITTER: Yoshihara N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4395100 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature