HYPERREFLECTIVE FOVEAL SPOTS IN PATIENTS WITH VITREORETINAL ANOMALIES: A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis

Purpose: To describe structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography features in patients who have developed hyperreflective foveal spots with or without vitreomacular interface abnormalities or with vitreous adhesion alone. Methods: The study design was observational and cross sectional. The presence of defined epiretinal membrane was considered an exclusion criterion. All patients underwent complete ophthalmologic examination, with structural OCT and OCT angiography acquisitions. Both qualitative and quantitative analyses of OCT angiography reconstructions were performed for superficial capillary plexus, deep capillary plexus, and choriocapillaris. Results: Thirty patients (20 men; mean age, 55.2 years) showing hyperreflective foveal spots on structural OCT and 30 healthy control subjects (20 men; mean age, 54.7 years) were enrolled. Best-corrected visual acuity was 0.0 ± 0.0 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (20/20 Snellen) for both patients and control subjects. Following global and parafoveal/extrafoveal analyses, both superficial capillary plexus and deep capillary plexus showed significant reduction (P
Source: RETINA - Category: Opthalmology Tags: Original Study Source Type: research