Wide-field choroidal thickness in myopes and emmetropes

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Hoseini-Yazdi, Hosein
Vincent, Stephen J
Collins, Michael J
Read, Scott A
Alonso-Caneiro, David
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There is a paucity of knowledge regarding the normal in-vivo thickness of the choroid beyond the macula (~17°). In this study, the choroidal thickness of 27 healthy young adults was examined across the macular (the central 5 mm including the fovea, parafovea, and perifovea) and extra-macular (a 5–14 mm annulus including the near-periphery and periphery) regions using wide-field optical coherence tomography, and compared between emmetropes (n = 14) and myopes (n = 13). The choroid progressively thinned beyond the parafovea (350 ± 86 µm) towards the periphery (264 ± 44 µm), and was thickest superiorly (355 ± 76 µm) and thinnest nasally (290 ± 79 µm). Choroidal thickness also varied with refractive error; myopes exhibited a thinner choroid than emmetropes in the macular region (311 ± 88 vs. 383 ± 66 µm), however, this difference diminished towards the periphery (251 ± 48 vs. 277 ± 37 µm). Meridional variations in choroidal thickness were not different between myopes and emmetropes. In conclusion, the choroid was thickest within the perifovea; thinned substantially towards the periphery, and exhibited the minimum and maximum peripheral thinning superiorly and nasally across a 55° region respectively. Choroidal thinning associated with myopia was more pronounced in the macular than extra-macular regions.

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9

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Clinical sciences

Ophthalmology and optometry not elsewhere classified

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OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY

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Hoseini-Yazdi, H; Vincent, SJ; Collins, MJ; Read, SA; Alonso-Caneiro, D, Wide-field choroidal thickness in myopes and emmetropes, Scientific Reports, 2019, 9 (1)

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