Assessing photoreceptor structure in patients with traumatic head injury.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Previous work using adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) imaging has shown photoreceptor disruption to be a common finding in head and ocular trauma patients. Here an expanded trauma population was examined using a novel imaging technique, split-detector AOSLO, to assess remnant cone structure in areas with significant disruption on confocal AOSLO imaging and to follow photoreceptor changes longitudinally.

Methods and analysis

Eight eyes from seven subjects with head and/or ocular trauma underwent imaging with spectral domain optical coherence tomography, confocal AOSLO and split-detector AOSLO to assess foveal and parafoveal photoreceptor structure.

Results

Confocal AOSLO imaging revealed hyporeflective foveal regions in two of eight eyes.

SUBMITTER: Braza ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6257382 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature