Macular Retinal Microvasculature of Hyperopia, Emmetropia, and Myopia in Children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To compare macular retinal microcirculation in myopia, emmetropia, and hyperopia groups and investigate the relationship between macular retinal microcirculation and axial length (AL) in children.

Methods

Forty myopic, 29 emmetropic, and 34 hyperopic eyes were included. All the recruited eyes underwent optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) examinations. After adjusting the image size by the Littmann method and Bennett formula, the vessel density (VD) of the deep capillary plexus (DCP) and superficial vascular plexus (SVP) were assessed.

Results

The VD of the DCP was significantly lower in the myopia group than in the hyperopia group, whereas no significant differences in the VD of the SVP were observed among the myopia, emmetropia, and hyperopia grou

SUBMITTER: Lv L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9163362 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature