Cataract surgery has been the leading ophthalmic surgical procedure in the past century, treating a preventable yet very prominent cause of reversible blindness. Studies of the retinal vasculature as well as the ocular blood flow have been conducted among cataract patients, however these were performed on patients with a relatively average axial length, without regard to the possible variability in retinal vascular changes post operatively between cataract patients from the different axial length extremes, high myopia and hyperopia. With the advancements in optical coherence tomography (OCT), a noninvasive imaging technique widely used to visualize the retinal and its layers, quantitative analysis of the retinal vasculature was made possible by means of high speed OCT and angiography algorithms. The following study was carried out to evaluate changes in retinal vasculature after uncomplicated phacoemulsification among cataract patients with variable axial lengths.
Cataract surgery has been the leading ophthalmic surgical procedure in the past century, treating a preventable yet very prominent cause of reversible blindness. Studies of the retinal vasculature as well as the ocular blood flow have been conducted among cataract patients, however these were performed on patients with a relatively average axial length, without regard to the possible variability in retinal vascular changes post operatively between cataract patients from the different axial length extremes, high myopia and hyperopia. With the advancements in optical coherence tomography (OCT), a noninvasive imaging technique widely used to visualize the retinal and its layers, quantitative analysis of the retinal vasculature was made possible by means of high speed OCT and angiography algorithms. The following study was carried out to evaluate changes in retinal vasculature after uncomplicated phacoemulsification among cataract patients with variable axial lengths.
THE IMPACT OF HIGH MYOPIA AND HYPEROPIA ON RETINAL VASCULARIZATION POST UNCOMPLICATED PHACOEMULSIFICATION SURGERY
DEMENTIEV, DANIEL
2019/2020
Abstract
Cataract surgery has been the leading ophthalmic surgical procedure in the past century, treating a preventable yet very prominent cause of reversible blindness. Studies of the retinal vasculature as well as the ocular blood flow have been conducted among cataract patients, however these were performed on patients with a relatively average axial length, without regard to the possible variability in retinal vascular changes post operatively between cataract patients from the different axial length extremes, high myopia and hyperopia. With the advancements in optical coherence tomography (OCT), a noninvasive imaging technique widely used to visualize the retinal and its layers, quantitative analysis of the retinal vasculature was made possible by means of high speed OCT and angiography algorithms. The following study was carried out to evaluate changes in retinal vasculature after uncomplicated phacoemulsification among cataract patients with variable axial lengths.È consentito all'utente scaricare e condividere i documenti disponibili a testo pieno in UNITESI UNIPV nel rispetto della licenza Creative Commons del tipo CC BY NC ND.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14239/11615