Macular choroidal thickness and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in normal adults and patients with optic atrophy due to acute idiopathic demyelinating optic neuritis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the association between macular choroidal thickness and peripapillary RNFL thickness in patients with optic atrophy due to acute idiopathic demyelinating optic neuritis and in normal controls using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

Methods

We performed SD-OCT peripapillary RNFL circular scan centered on the optic disc with horizontal and vertical crosshair scans through the fovea using the enhanced depth technique in 62 eyes with optic atrophy due to acute idiopathic demyelinating optic neuritis and 86 eyes of normal controls. The association between RNFL thickness and macular choroidal thickness measurements was assessed.

Results

The mean age was 43 ± 14 years (mean ± SD) in patients with optic atrophy and 45 ± 16 years in hea

SUBMITTER: Park KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5983443 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature