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Abstract #56868 Published in IGR 16-2
Association between baseline iris thickness and prophylactic laser peripheral iridotomy outcomes in primary angle-closure suspects
Lee RY; Kasuga T; Cui QN; Porco TC; Huang G; He M; Lin SCOphthalmology 2014; 121: 1194-1202
See also comment(s) by Tin Aung & Mani Baskaran • Robert Feldman •
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the association between baseline measurements of iris thickness at 3 positions and change in anterior segment biometric parameters after prophylactic laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI). DESIGN: Prospective clinical cohort study. PARTICIPANTS: Fifty-two eyes of 52 nonglaucomatous subjects with anatomically narrow angles. METHODS: Anterior segment optical coherence tomography (ASOCT) images captured before and after LPI were analyzed using customized software, the Zhongshan Angle Assessment Program (ZAAP) (Zhongshan Ophthalmic Centre, Guangzhou, China). Differences in preoperative and postoperative measurements for anterior segment biometric parameters were compared by paired Student t tests. Multivariate linear regression models, adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and preoperative pupil diameter, were used to examine the association between the baseline measurements of iris thickness at 3 positions and the change in anterior segment biometric parameters after LPI. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Baseline iris thickness measured at 750 μm from the scleral spur (IT750), iris thickness measured at 2000 μm from the scleral spur (IT2000), and maximal iris thickness (ITM). Changes in iris curvature (ICURV) and trabecular-iris space area at 500 μm from the scleral spur (TISA500) and 750 μm from the scleral spur (TISA750) after LPI. RESULTS: The ICURV significantly decreased, whereas TISA500 and TISA750 significantly increased after LPI (all P < 0.0001). Lower baseline IT750 was significantly associated with greater postoperative increases in TISA500 and TISA750 (both P < 0.05). Lower baseline IT2000 and ITM were significantly associated with greater postoperative decrease in ICURV (both P < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Our results showed that lower baseline measurements of iris thickness are associated with greater decrease in ICURV and increases in TISA500 and TISA750 after LPI. This suggests that eyes with thinner irides undergoing LPI were more likely to exhibit greater magnitude of change in terms of flattening of the iris convexity (i.e., ICURV) and widening of the anterior chamber angle (i.e., TISA500 and TISA750).
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Classification:
12.2 Laser iridotomy (Part of: 12 Surgical treatment)
2.8 Iris (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
9.3.4 Primary angle closure suspect (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.3 Primary angle closure glaucomas)
