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Anterior segment optical coherence tomography: assisted topographic corneal epithelial thickness distribution imaging of 252 keratoconus patients

Session Details

Session Title: Cornea Medical

Session Date/Time: Monday 07/10/2013 | 08:00-10:00

Paper Time: 09:16

Venue: Elicium 1 (First Floor)

First Author: : G.Asimellis GREECE

Co Author(s): :    A. Kanellopoulos              

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To evaluate safety, efficacy and ease of measurement of epithelial thickness and to investigate to investigate patterns and descriptive statistics of epithelium distribution, in a keratoconic patient based on anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (AS OCT). To investigate patterns and descriptive statistics of epithelium distribution

Setting:

Laservision.gr Eye Institute, Athens, Greece

Methods:

Two hundred fifty two cases diagnosed with keratoconus (group A), were subjected to series of AS OCT corneal epithelial imaging, in comparison to an age-matched cases, of non-keratoconic population (group B). We investigated epithelial thickness and epithelial topographic thickness distribution

Results:

Mean epithelial thickness was 55.65 ± 1.22 for group A, and 51.97 ± 0.70 for group B. Topographic epithelial thickness variability for group A was 9.80 ± 0.41 ?m, and for group B, 1.53 ± 0.21 ?m.

Conclusions:

Anterior-segment OCT epithelial imaging also supports our previous findings with high frequency ultrasound measurements, of the increase, of overall epithelial thickness in keratoconic eyes, in comparison to normal. AS-OCT further offers ease of use and possibly higher predictability of measurement, which may be significant advantage. ?

Financial Interest:

... travel has been funded, fully or partially, by a company producing, developing or supplying the product or procedure presented