With the increasing popularity of intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT) equipment, the use of iOCT for a variety of fundus diseases is gradually increasing. Most clinical studies on iOCT have a small number of samples and lack of control, and the level and quality of evidence are generally not good. Therefore, the evaluation of the clinical value of iOCT is mainly based on whether it is helpful for surgical manipulation and whether it has influence on intraoperative decision-making. Currently, membrane peeling during vitrectomy is the most common use of iOCT. The current iOCT does not have the automatic tracking function, which requires the surgeon to stop the operation and manually adjust the position of the probe to track the scanning site to obtain the image. The synchronous automatic tracking cannot be achieved. In the future, it is necessary to develop an automatic tracking system to reduce the workload of the surgeon during the operation.
Pharmaceutical therapy, including anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment and intravitreal corticosteroids, is the most common treatment for branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and its complications, however there are confusing ideas about the protocol, patient selection, timing and endpoint of this treatment. The disease is easy to relapse with these drugs therapy. Collateral vessel formation was found in patients receiving intravitreal injection of ranibizumab or triamcinolone for BRVO and secondary macular edema. The mechanism of collateral vessel formation has not been carefully investigated. In the past thrombolysis, arteriovenous fasciostomy and laser choroidal retinal vascular anastomosis were used to reconstruct the retinal circulation, but their rationality, effectiveness and safety need to be further were studied. In recent years, because of the key technology is still immature, the artificial vascular bypass surgery experiment is not yet practical, but provides us a new idea worth looking forward to for the treatment of BRVO.
Objective To evaluate metamorphopsia and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) and its influencing factor after vitrectomy for idiopathic macular hole (IMH). Methods This is a prospective and non-randomized clinical cohort study. Thirty eyes of 30 IMH patients who received vitrectomy and inner limited membrane (ILM) peeling were included. The best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), medical refraction test and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed. BCVA was recorded as logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR). The macular hole index (MHI) was measured using OCT. The average logMAR BCVA and MHI in suffering eyes at baseline were 1.02±0.07 and 0.47±0.02, respectively. The uncorrected visual acuity of the fellow eyes was less than 0.1. Follow-up period was longer than 6 months. At 6 months after surgery, the central retinal thickness (CRT) was measured by OCT; vertical and horizontal metamorphopsia were measured by metamorphopsia charts; VRQoL was evaluated by Chinese VRQoL-25. Spearman correlation analysis was performed to analyze the relationship of VRQoL and postoperative BCVA, metamorphopsia and preoperative MHI. Results At 6 months after surgery, macular hole closure was confirmed by OCT in all patients. The vertical and horizontal metamorphopsia were (0.17±0.03)° and (0.11±0.03)°, respectively. The VRQoL-25 composite score was 79.81±1.29. The average BCVA was 0.59±0.05. The average CRT was (155.10±6.27) μm. The postoperative VRQoL was positive correlated with preoperative MHI (r=0.491,P=0.002), and negative correlated with preoperative BCVA (r=−0.445,P=0.014), postoperative BCVA (r=−0.530,P=0.003) and postoperative metamorphopsia (r=−0.532,P=0.006), but not correlated with the postoperative CRT (r=0.231,P>0.05). Conclusions IMH patients improved their visual acuity after surgery, but still have metamorphopsia. VRQoL was negative correlated with metamorphopsia, positive correlated with preoperative MHI.
ObjectiveTo evaluate the assistant effect of intraoperative OCT (iOCT) in vitreous retinal surgery for macular disease.MethodsA retrospective case study. A total of 71 patients (71 eyes) with macular disease who underwent vitrectomy in Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University at Hangzhou from June 2015 to September 2016 were collected. There were 24 males (24 eyes) and 47 females (47 eyes), aged from 25 to 78 years, with the mean age of 63.35±10.01 years. Among 71 eyes, there were 26 eyes with idiopathic macular hole, 42 eyes with idiopathic epiretinal membrane, 3 eyes with vitreomacular traction syndrome. The examination of iOCT was performed on the patients during 23G minimally invasive vitreoretinal surgery combined with internal limiting membrane peeling. Use observational method to compare the difference between result of iOCT and observation under the microscope, record the change of treatment strategy.ResultsEight eyes (11.27%) iOCT results were different from the surgeon’s observation, which including 5 eyes (62.50%) with idiopathic macular hole, 2 eyes (25.00%) with idiopathic epiretinal membrane, 1 eye (12.50%) with vitreomacular traction syndrome. The treatment strategy was changed in 8 eyes (11.27%) based on iOCT result, which including 5 eyes (62.50%) with idiopathic macular hole, 2 eyes (25.00%) with idiopathic epiretinal membrane, 1 eye (12.50%) with vitreomacular traction syndrome.ConclusionsiOCT can help the surgeon find some subtle morphological changes which can hardly be seen by eyes. The surgeon can change and optimize the treatment strategy based on the result of iOCT.
Intravitreal anti-VEGF injection have been widely used in retinal vascular diseases and achieved good efficacy. Early pregnancy is an important period for fetal organ formation and vascular development. Studies have proved that VEGF plays an important role in maintaining the fetal and placental vascular system, and its loss or decline will affect embryonic development and lead to abortion. The use of intravitreal anti-VEGF during pregnancy is controversial, which may cause systemic side effects to the mother and fetus. This paper summarizes the literature of 23 cases on the use of anti-VEGF during pregnancy. Three cases reported loss of pregnancy with concomitant exposure to intravitreal bevacizumab, which suggested that we should be careful about the use of anti-VEGF during pregnancy and explain the possibility of ocular and systemic side effects to patients in detail. When deciding whether to use anti-VEGF, we should consider the relationship between exposure time and the critical period of vascular development and the systemic exposure of different drugs. Currently, there is a lack of large sample size studies on the use of anti-VEGF in pregnancy, and its safety needs to be further observed.
Dissociated optic nerve fiber layer (DONFL) appearance is consists of numerous arcuate dark striae within the posterior pole in the direction of the optic nerve fibers. And on the cross-sectional image, DONFL was correspond to inner retinal dimples. It mainly occurs after the internal limiting membrane (ILM) peeling due to the direct damage on the local retina and the broad tractional effect on the posterior retina during membrane peeling. DONFL appearance is considered to be a spontaneous and delayed morphologic change with a subclinical nature, and appears to have little effect on retinal function. In addition to avoiding the removal of ILM and reducing the area of ILM peeling, a novel technique for reposition of the fixed ILM flap with the assistance of perfluoro-n-octane and the temporal inverted ILM flap technique can also be used to prevent and reduce the occurrence of DONFL appearance. Further studies on its development, clinical features and clinical significance are still required.
ObjectiveTo observe the changes of peripapillary vessel density and retinal nerve fiber layer parameters (RNFL) in diabetic mellitus (DM) patients with early diabetic retinopathy (DR).MethodsA retrospective clinical study. From January to December 2018, twenty-eight DM patients (47 eyes, DM group) and 20 normal subjects (40 eyes, control group) in Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University at Hangzhou were included in the study. There was no significant difference between the two groups in age (t=－1.397, P=0.169) and sex composition ratio (χ2=0.039, P=0.843). The optic nerve head was scanned by OCT angiography (OCTA) with HD 4.5 mm ×4.5 mm imaging scanning mode for all subjects. The peripapillary radial peripapillary capillaries vessel density (ppVD) and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness were measured. The changes of ppVD and pRNFL thickness between the two groups were observed. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between ppVD and pRNFL in each quadrant.ResultsCompared with the control group, the mean ppVD and superior-hemi part, inferior-hemi part, superior, nasal, inferior and temporal quadrant ppVDs of DM group were all significantly lower than those of control group (t=5.107, 4.360, 3.713, 4.007, 2.806, 4.046, 2.214; P＜0.05). The mean and all quadrants pRNFL thickness were lower in eyes of DM group compared with the control, and the superior and inferior quadrant pRNFL thickness were statistically significant (t=2.117, 2.349; P＜0.05), while the mean pRNFL and superior-hemi, inferior-hemi part, nasal and temporal quadrant were not statistically significant (t=1.867, 1.717, 1.869, 0.720, 0.303; P＞0.05). Pearson correlation analysis showed that the significant high-positive correlation was found between ppVD and pRNFL thickness in the nasal quadrant (r=0.734, P＜0.001).ConclusionIn early DR patients, ppVD decreased and pRNFL thinned.
Idiopathic macular hole after the internal limiting membrane (ILM) is removed during surgery, the intraoperative optical coherence tomography can be used to observe the presence of debris tissue (RF) protruding into the vitreous cavity at the edge of the hole. Current studies suggest that RF may be caused by epiretinal proliferation and vitreomacular traction, but it is still controversial, and the influence of postoperative anatomical and functional recovery is not clear. Common points can still be found, some of the studies suggest that RF is not conducive to postoperative anatomical and functional recovery during the operation, ILM fragments remain on RF tissues after ILM peeling and re-staining. However, in some studies suggest that RF is beneficial to postoperative anatomical and functional recovery, and ILM fragments on RF are removed. This suggests that whether ILM is removed on RF lead to a certain influence on the postoperative efficacy. There are few researches on RF at present, so it is necessary to understand RF from its essence and assist judgment through histological analysis.
High myopia (HM) is one of the main causes of vision loss. In recent years, optical coherence tomography and other techniques have shown a variety of vitreoretinal interface abnormalities (VRIA) in highly myopic eyes. Posterior vitreous detachment and paravascular abnormality are the relatively common manifestations of VRIA. Posterior vitreous detachment is classified in several different ways in HM eyes, the onset age of which is earlier in HM. Paravascular abnormality mainly includes paravascular microfold, paravascular cyst, paravascular lamellar hole, and paravascular retinoschisis. The former two are early-stage lesions, the latter two are advanced lesions. VRIA is closely related to many HM's fundus complications, such as myopic retinoschisis, macular hole, retinal detachment and so on. VRIA may develop into myopic retinoschisis, which in turn develop into full-thickness macular hole, and even retinal detachment. Therefore, the examination and judgment of VRIA in HM patients are of great significance for the early prevention and treatment of clinical retina diseases.
Objective To analysis the effect of lens opacity on the measurement of retinal vessel oxygen saturation. Methods This was a cross sectional study. Forty four eyes of 44 patients with different degrees of lens opacity were enrolled. There were 23 males and 21 females. The patients aged from 48 to 84 years, with the mean age of (71.8±10.3) years. The mean best corrected visual acuity was 0.65±0.22. The mean intraocular pressure was (14.2±4.3) mmHg (1 mmHg=0.133 kPa). The mean equivalent spherical degree was (−0.05±2.10) D. The opitical quality analysis system was applied to measure intraocular objective scattering index (OSI) caused by lens opacity. According to the OSI, the opacity of lens was divided into four groups. Patients with OSI value ＜1.0 was grouped to level 1, which indicated that the lens were basically transparent; patients with OSI value between 1.0 and 3.0 was grouped to level 2, which indicated early cataract; patients with OSI value between 3.0 and 7.0 was grouped to level 3, which indicated progressive cataract; patients with OSI value ＞7.0 was grouped to level 4, which indicated the mature stage of cataract. The retinal oximeter Oxymap T1 was used to capture the fundus images under different wavelengths. Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the correlation between retinal oxygen saturation and age, intraocular pressure, equivalent spherical degree and OSI. One way ANOVA was used to analyze the difference of retinal oxygen saturation among groups. Results The mean retinal arterial oxygen saturation, venous oxygen saturation and arteriovenous difference was (90.70±6.46)%, (47.34±13.51)%, (43.36±10.09)%, respectively. The correlations of retinal arterial oxygen saturation, venous oxygen saturation and arteriovenous difference with age, intraocular pressure, equivalent spherical degree was not statistically significant (all P＞0.05). The retinal arterial oxygen saturation and venous oxygen saturation was negatively correlated with OSI (r=−0.462,−0.500; P=0.002, 0.001), the arteriovenous difference and OSI was positively correlated (r=0.373, P=0.013). According to lens opacity, there were 11 eyes in level 1, 9 eyes in level 2, 14 eyes in level 3, 10 eyes in level 4. There were significant differences of retinal artery and venous oxygen saturation among different lens opacity levels (F=5.340, 4.710; P=0.003, 0.007); meanwhile, the arteriovenous difference was not significantly different (F=2.048, P=0.123). The retinal arterial oxygen saturation and venous oxygen saturation was significantly lower in the level 4 lens opacity group than any other three groups (all P＜0.05), but there was no statistically significant difference among level 1 to level 3 lens opacity group. Conclusion The effect of lens opacity of level 1 to level 3 is limited on the measurement of retinal oxygen saturation, but level 4 lens opacity will cause decrease of retinal artery and venous oxygen saturation.