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Chikako Hara1,2, Kazuichi Maruyama1,3,4, Taku Wakabayashi1
1Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
Purpose:
To utilize volumetric analysis to quantify volumetric changes in choroidal vessels and stroma after photodynamic therapy (PDT) and focal laser photocoagulation (PC) for central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR).
Methods:
This retrospective, comparative study included 58 eyes (58 patients) with CSCR (PC, 33 eyes; PDT, 25 eyes) followed up with swept-source optical coherence tomography at 3 months after treatment. Three-dimensional (3D) choroidal vessel and stromal volumes in each area of the central 1.5-mm-diameter circle, the torus-shaped area with 6-mm-diameter circle excluding the area of the central 1.5-mm-diameter circle, and the treated area of the Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) grid centered at the fovea were analyzed using a deep learning-based method. Changes in volume at baseline and 1 and 3 months after treatment were compared.
Results:
The mean patient age was 49.3 ± 10.5 years. In the central 1.5-mm-diameter circle, the mean vessel and stromal volume rates significantly decreased after the treatment in both the PDT and PC groups (P = 0.00029 and P = 0.0014, respectively), and significant differences between the PDT and PC groups of continuous variables within times were observed in both volumes (P = 0.024 and P = 0.037, respectively). In the torus-shaped area and treated area, the PDT and PC groups both showed similar decreases in vessel and stromal volume over time.
Conclusions:
In the 3D optical coherence tomography volumetric analysis, both PDT and focal PC reduced choroid vessel volume in eyes with CSCR.
Translational Relevance:
This new finding is useful in elucidating the pathogenesis and healing mechanisms of CSCR.
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