Analysis of Short-Term Change in Subfoveal Choroidal Thickness in Eyes With Age-Related Macular Degeneration Using Optical Coherence Tomography
Background and Objective—To measure the subfoveal choroidal thickness in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) over 6 months. Study Design/Patients and Methods—A retrospective, observational study of patients with AMD followed for 6 months at the New England Eye Center. Baseline and...
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| Language: | en_US |
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SLACK, Inc.
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100208 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0828-4357 |
| Summary: | Background and Objective—To measure the subfoveal choroidal thickness in patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) over 6 months.
Study Design/Patients and Methods—A retrospective, observational study of patients with AMD followed for 6 months at the New England Eye Center. Baseline and 6 month subfoveal choroidal thickness was measured using spectral domain OCT and compared.
Results—For the entire cohort there was statistically significant thinning of the subfoveal
choroidal thickness at 6 months compared to baseline, which was driven by the cohort of patients with neovascular AMD [181.2 +/− 75 μm to 173.4 +/− 63 μm] p=0.049. (Figure and Table 1).
Conclusions—There was a statistically significant decrease in subfoveal choroidal thickness observed in this cohort of patients with AMD over 6 months, but it was driven by one subgroup, those patients with neovascular age related macular degeneration |
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