Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Foveal Hypoplasia

A retrospective case series reporting optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) findings in foveal hypoplasia.

Patients with foveal hypoplasia who presented to the authors' tertiary eye center. Cases of foveal hypoplasia that underwent OCTA were reviewed, and the clinical histories as well as imaging findings were summarized.

Three patients presented to the authors' eye center for evaluation of foveal hypoplasia and underwent OCTA: a 5-year-old girl, a 40-year-old woman, and a 22-year-old man. OCTA images were taken for both eyes of all patients. Four of five eyes with foveal hypoplasia had a small but present foveal avascular zone in the deep capillary plexus, whereas all eyes had an absent or severely reduced superficial capillary plexus.

OCTA can be helpful in the diagnosis of foveal hypoplasia and can aid in the anatomical characterization of disease. [Ophthalmic Surg Lasers Imaging Retina. 2016;47:1127-1131.].