Structural and Visual Changes in Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion Patients with Retinal Atrophy

JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY(2022)

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Background. To study the changes of retinal vascular density (VD), retinal thickness (RT), and their correlations with visual acuity (VA) in branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) patients with retinal atrophy after resolution of macular oedema (MO). Methods. This is a retrospective study consisting of 46 patients diagnosed with BRVO at Beijing Hospital from 2015 to 2019. Patients' 46 affected eyes and 39 fellow eyes were included. The affected eyes were further divided into the atrophy group and the nonatrophy group. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) images obtained when MO completely resolved after treatment with ranibizumab were analyzed. We quantitatively measured foveal avascular zone (FAZ) parameters, the disruption extent of ellipsoid zone (EZ), RT, and VD of superficial vascular complex (SVC), and deep vascular complex (DVC) in central fovea and the minimal-VD quadrant. Paired t-tests, independent t-tests, Mann-Whitney U tests, Wilcoxon tests, Pearson correlation analyses, Spearman correlation analyses, and single and multiple linear regression models were adopted. Results. Compared with nonatrophy eyes, the minimal-VD quadrantal (quadrantal for short) SVC-VD (25.76 & PLUSMN; 4.57% versus 36.21 & PLUSMN; 6.47%, P < 0.001) and quadrantal DVC-VD (27.72 (17.23) % versus 38.95 (11.05) %, P=0.001) of atrophy eyes decreased significantly. Quadrantal SVC-VD and quadrantal DVC-VD were strongly correlated with quadrantal full RT (r = 0.763 and 0.698, both P < 0.001). The disruption length of EZ was significantly correlated with quadrantal full RT (r = -0.406, P=0.005) and quadrantal SVC-VD (r = -0.298, P=0.044). In multiple linear regression analysis, the disruption length of EZ and VA before treatment and age showed significant correlations with VA with complete resolution of MO (P=0.020, 0.033, and 0.002). Conclusions. The retinal VD on the affected area correlates well with the corresponding full RT when BRVO-MO completely resolves, suggesting that VD may predict the final RT. Severe decrease in VD may result in retinal atrophy, which may cause VA loss indirectly with the intermediate influencing factor of EZ defects.
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