Association of Myopia With Peripapillary Perfused Capillary Density in Patients With Glaucoma: An Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

This study used optical coherence tomographic angiography to assess for impaired blood flow in myopic eyes with or without open-angle glaucoma.

Objective

To compare the peripapillary perfused capillary density (PCD) between eyes with and without glaucoma.

Design, setting, and participants

In this cross-sectional study at a tertiary glaucoma referral practice, we recruited patients with myopic eyes of spherical equivalent of more than -3.0 diopters with and without open-angle glaucoma, patients with nonmyopic eyes with glaucoma, and patients with no disease from February 2016 to October 2016. We obtained 4.5 × 4.5-mm optical coherence tomographic angiography images of the optic nerve head and calculated PCD as the ratio of pixels associated with capillaries

SUBMITTER: Suwan Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6145659 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature