June 2017
Volume 58, Issue 8
Open Access
ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   June 2017
OCT can be used to assess optic nerve damage in most eyes with high myopia without the need for a high myopia normative group.
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Zane Zenon Zemborain
    Psychology , Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
  • Ravivarn Jarukasetphon
    Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear, New York, New York, United States
  • Daiyan Xin
    Psychology , Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
  • Sherief Raouf
    Psychology , Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
  • Robert Ritch
    Ophthalmology, New York Eye and Ear, New York, New York, United States
  • Donald Hood
    Psychology , Columbia University, New York, New York, United States
    Ophthalmology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, United States
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships   Zane Zemborain, None; Ravivarn Jarukasetphon, None; Daiyan Xin, None; Sherief Raouf, None; Robert Ritch, None; Donald Hood, Heidelberg Engineering (F), Heidelberg Engineering (R), Topcon Inc. (F), Topcon Inc. (R)
  • Footnotes
    Support  NEI RO1-EY-02115, HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud Research Fund of the New York Glaucoma Research Institute
Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science June 2017, Vol.58, 3993. doi:
  • Views
  • Share
  • Tools
    • Alerts
      ×
      This feature is available to authenticated users only.
      Sign In or Create an Account ×
    • Get Citation

      Zane Zenon Zemborain, Ravivarn Jarukasetphon, Daiyan Xin, Sherief Raouf, Robert Ritch, Donald Hood; OCT can be used to assess optic nerve damage in most eyes with high myopia without the need for a high myopia normative group.. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2017;58(8):3993.

      Download citation file:


      © ARVO (1962-2015); The Authors (2016-present)

      ×
  • Supplements
Abstract

Purpose : Patients with high myopia can be a challenge to test with optical coherence tomography (OCT) due to poor image quality and/or the lack of a high myopia normative group. To improve our understanding of these limitations, OCT scans from eyes with high myopia were examined.

Methods : 83 consecutive eyes, sent for OCT scans and evaluation, had corrected spherical refractive errors worse than -6D and/or axial lengths >26.5mm. Three high-resolution (average of 27 b-scans) OCT circle scans (3.5, 4.1, and 4.7mm dia.) and a cube scan (61 b-scans), which included the macula, were obtained (Spectralis, Heidelberg Eng), as well as 24-2 and 10-2 visual fields (VF). Phase 1: A glaucoma specialist judged whether the fundus photo and en-face images showed peripapillary atrophy (PPA), epiretinal membrane (ERM), paravascular inner retinal defect (PIRD), and/or a tilted disc (TD). Phase 2: The report specialist judged whether the eye had optic nerve damage, based upon the OCT scans. The glaucoma specialist made the same judgement using all available information (e.g. family history, IOP, 10-2 and 24-2 VFs, OCT, etc.). A reference standard (RS) was created after adjudication between the two specialists.

Results : ERM, PIRD, TD, and PPA were observed in 12, 24, 37 and 62 eyes, respectively. Fig. 1A shows the temporal half of a circle scan (3.5 mm) from an eye with PPA. In 66 eyes, the OCT specialist used the 3.5 mm peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (pRNFL) thickness plot, and, when the circle scan was difficult to interpret (Fig. 2C), the RNFL (Fig. 2A) and GCL (Fig. 2B) thickness maps. In the remaining 17 eyes, the other circle scans (Fig. 1B), and/or the line scans through the vertical and horizontal meridians were also examined. The report specialist misclassified two of the RS. In one eye, RNFL thinning, due to a PIRD, was mistaken for optic nerve damage; in the other eye, subtle pRNFL thinning was missed. On the other hand, the best pRNFL and BMO-MRW metrics (1 red and/or 2 yellows) misclassified 9 (10.8%) and 13 (15.7%) RS eyes, respectively.

Conclusions : OCT scans from most eyes with high myopia can be used to detect optic nerve damage without the need of a high myopia normative group. However, successful use of the OCT depends upon visual inspection of pRNFL, RGC and RNFL plots, as opposed to relying on summary metrics.

This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2017 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Baltimore, MD, May 7-11, 2017.

 

 

×
×

This PDF is available to Subscribers Only

Sign in or purchase a subscription to access this content. ×

You must be signed into an individual account to use this feature.

×