Scleral spur visibility of anterior chamber angle measured by Fourier optic coherence tomography / 中国医师杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To assess visibility of scleral spur in images of anterior chamber angle measured by the CAM model of Fourier optic coherence tomography (OCT). Methods Subjects aged 40 years or older were selected from outpatients in our opthalmologic clinic. All participants underwent standard ocular examinations, and anterior chamber angle was measured by CAM-L model of RTVue-OCT (Optovue Inc,USA) and gonioscopy. Visibility of scleral spur in OCT images and its related factor were analyzed. Results 98 subjects (98 eyes) aged (63.3±10.5)y included 62 females (63.3%) were selected in this study. There were 286 in 392 quadrants (73.0%) with visualized scleral spur, which had significant difference among local bulbar conjunctiva thickened or not (P＜0.01). Logistic multiple regression showed that the visibility of scleral spur was not associated with gender, age, gonioscope grades (P＞0.05), but significant associated with local bulbar conjunctiva thickened (OR＝0.113, P＜0.01) and quadrants (OR of superior/temporal＝0.210, OR of inferior/temporal＝0.340, P＜0.01), of which there were different scleral spur visibility in superior and inferior quadrants compared with temporal(OR＝0.210, 0.340, P＜0.01). Angle status was still identified in 80.2% quadrants on condition that scleral spur was not visualized. Conclusions Fourier optic coherence tomography has good feasibility to detect anterior chamber angle as an alternative method, and may supply helpful information to estimate the pathogenesis of angle closure glaucoma.