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Abstract #79300 Published in IGR 20-1

Fluorescein Aqueous Angiography in Live Normal Human Eyes

Huang AS; Penteado RC; Saha SK; Do JL; Ngai P; Hu Z; Weinreb RN
Journal of Glaucoma 2018; 27: 957-964


PURPOSE: To evaluate aqueous humor outflow (AHO) in intact eyes of live human subjects during cataract surgery using fluorescein aqueous angiography. METHODS: Aqueous angiography was performed in 8 live human subjects (56 to 86 y old; 2 men and 6 women). After anesthesia, fluorescein (2%) was introduced into the eye [either alone or after indocyanine green (ICG; 0.4%)] from a sterile, gravity-driven constant-pressure reservoir. Aqueous angiographic images were obtained with a Spectralis HRA+OCT and FLEX module (Heidelberg Engineering). Using the same device, anterior-segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) and infrared images were also concurrently taken with aqueous angiography. RESULTS: Fluorescein aqueous angiography in the live human eye showed segmental AHO patterns. Initial angiographic signal was seen on average by 14.0±3.0 seconds (mean±SE). Using multimodal imaging, angiographically positive signal colocalized with episcleral veins (infrared imaging) and intrascleral lumens (anterior-segment OCT). Sequential aqueous angiography with ICG followed by fluorescein showed similar segmental angiographic patterns. DISCUSSION: Fluorescein aqueous angiography in live humans was similar to that reported in nonhuman primates and to ICG aqueous angiography in live humans. As segmental patterns with sequential angiography using ICG followed by fluorescein were similar, these tracers can now be used sequentially, before and after trabecular outflow interventions, to assess their effects on AHO in live human subjects.

Department of Ophthalmology, Doheny Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles.

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Classification:

6.10.1 Anterior segment (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.10 Fluorescein (ICG) angiography)
2.6.2.1 Trabecular meshwork (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma > 2.6 Aqueous humor dynamics > 2.6.2 Outflow)
6.9.2.1 Anterior (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.9 Computerized image analysis > 6.9.2 Optical coherence tomography)



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