April 2011
Volume 52, Issue 14
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2011
Anterior Movement of the Lamina Cribrosa after Trabeculectomy in Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Image Series
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Moon Hee Jeong
    Seoul National Univ Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
  • Eun Ji Lee
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    National Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Tae-Woo Kim
    Seoul National Univ Bundang Hospital, Seongnam, Republic of Korea
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Robert N. Weinreb
    Hamilton Glaucoma Center, Univ of California-San Diego, La Jolla, California
  • Ki Ho Park
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Seok Hwan Kim
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
    Seoul National University Boramae Hospital, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Dong Myung Kim
    Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships  Moon Hee Jeong, None; Eun Ji Lee, None; Tae-Woo Kim, None; Robert N. Weinreb, Heidelberg Engineering GmbH (F); Ki Ho Park, None; Seok Hwan Kim, None; Dong Myung Kim, None
  • Footnotes
    Support  National Research Foundation of Korea fund 800-20100194 and a grant 03-2010-020 from the Seoul National University Bundang Hospital Research fund.
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2011, Vol.52, 6287. doi:
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      Moon Hee Jeong, Eun Ji Lee, Tae-Woo Kim, Robert N. Weinreb, Ki Ho Park, Seok Hwan Kim, Dong Myung Kim; Anterior Movement of the Lamina Cribrosa after Trabeculectomy in Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography Image Series. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2011;52(14):6287.

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Abstract
 
Purpose:
 

To investigate the changes in the location of lamina cribrosa and the thickness of prelaminar neural tissue after glaucoma surgery using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).

 
Methods:
 

Optic discs of the 31 glaucoma patients who underwent trabeculectomy were scanned using enhanced depth imaging SD-OCT before surgery and 1 week, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months and 9 months postoperatively. The pre- and postoperative magnitude of the lamina cribrosa bowing and the thickness of the prelaminar tissue were determined on B scan images which contains the mostly depressed lamina cribrosa.

 
Results:
 

Intraocular pressure (IOP) decreased from 28.1±9.2 mmHg (range: 14 to 47 mmHg) to 10.0±3.1 mmHg (range: 4 to 21 mmHg) over a mean follow-up of 4.7±2.6 months. The amount of posterior bowing of the lamina cribrosa was significantly decreased from a mean preoperative level of 646.48±171.10 µm to 541.90±141.17 µm at the end of follow-up (P<0.001). There was no significant change in the prelaminar neural tissue thickness (119.14±50.46 µm preoperatively, and 122.67±50.43 µm postoperatively, P=0.070). The magnitude of the lamina cribrosa movement was significantly associated with greater percent IOP reduction (P=0.003) and younger age (P<0.001).

 
Conclusions:
 

Using enhanced depth imaging SD-OCT of the optic nerve head, the anterior movement of lamina cribrosa following glaucoma surgery was demonstrated. No significant thickness change was observed in the prelaminar neural tissue thickness.  

 
Keywords: lamina cribrosa • optic nerve 
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