OCTA in evaluating therapeutic effect of wet age-related macular degeneration / 国际眼科杂志(Guoji Yanke Zazhi)

ABSTRACT

@#AIM: To observe the changes of selected area of choroidal neovascularization(CSA)and flow area of choroidal neovascularization(CFA)before and after the treatment of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor(VEGF)by optical coherence tomography angiography(OCTA), and to explore the advantages of OCTA in the treatment and prognosis of wet age-related macular degeneration(wAMD). <p>METHODS: A retrospective analysis was performed on 22 patients(27 eyes)who were diagnosed with wARMD and received the first anti-VEGF drug treatment and subsequent treatment in the Department of Ophthalmology of our hospital from 2018-02 to 2019-07. All patients were treated with anti-VEGF drugs according to the 3+prn regimen. The best corrected visual acuity(BCVA),macular foveal retinal thickness(CMT), CSA, and CFA were compared before and after treatment. We analyzed the correlation between BCVA(LogMAR)and CMT, CSA, CFA by Pearson correlation analysis. <p>RESULTS: After 3mo of the treatment, the mean LogMAR BCVA(0.512±0.367), CMT(223.271±17.795μm),CSA(0.085±0.113mm2)and CFA(0.015±0.008mm2)were significantly lower than those before treatment(<i>P</i><0.05). The results of correlation analysis showed that the post- BCVA was positively correlated with pre-CMT, post-CMT, pre-CSA, post-CSA, pre-CFA and post-CFA(<i>P</i><0.05).<p>CONCLUSION: OCTA can directly display and quantify the changes of CSA and CFA before and after anti-VEGF treatment of wAMD, and provide a reference for the evaluation of wAMD treatment effects.