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Abstract #27241 Published in IGR 12-4
Optic nerve hypoplasia and optical coherence tomography
Fujimoto NNeuro-Ophthalmology Japan 2010; 27: 254-260
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proved to be useful when diagnosing optic nerve hypoplasia, especially in patients with normal-like fundi. OCT can also be used to determine whether patients with optic nerve hypoplasia will develop glaucoma. However, since retinal nerve fiber layer thickness in optic nerve hypoplasia sometimes decreases throughout all of the areas examined during an OCT scan, this could potentially prevent OCT from being able to differentiate optic nerve hypoplasia from glaucoma. In the future, however, OCT may very well be useful in diagnosing optic nerve hypoplasia, as not only can it determine nerve fiber layer thickness, but it can also be used to examine the retinal pigment epithelium and lamina cribrosa in these patients. LA: Japanese
N. Fujimoto. Department of Ophthalmology, Inoue Memorial Hospital, 1-16 Shindencho, Chuo-ku Chiba 260-0027, Japan.
Classification:
6.9.2.2 Posterior (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.9 Computerized image analysis > 6.9.2 Optical coherence tomography)
2.14 Optic disc (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
