Changes in Choroidal Thickness, Axial Length, and Ocular Perfusion Pressure Accompanying Successful Glaucoma Filtration Surgery

Overview

Journal Eye (Lond)

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2013 Jun 8

PMID 23743533

Citations 34

Authors

N Kara

O Baz

C Altan

B Satana

T Kurt

A Demirok

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Abstract

Purpose: To investigate the changes in choroidal thickness (CT), axial length (AL), and ocular perfusion pressure (OPP) accompanying intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction after trabeculectomy. methods: Thirty-nine eyes of 39 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma uncontrolled by medical therapy were included in this prospective and interventional study. All patients underwent a fornix-based trabeculectomy. The CT was measured by enhanced depth imaging-optical coherence tomography. IOP, AL, and systolic/diastolic blood pressure were also measured, and OPP was calculated. All measurements were performed at baseline and 1 month after surgery.

Results: The mean IOP was 25.0 ± 5.8 mm Hg at baseline and 11.7 ± 2.6 mm Hg after trabeculectomy (P<0.001), and the mean subfoveal CT was 295 ± 84 mm Hg at baseline and 331 ± 82 mm Hg after trabeculectomy (P<0.001). The mean AL was 23.64 ± 0.98 mm at baseline and 23.54 ± 0.96 mm after trabeculectomy (P<0.001), whereas the mean OPP was 38.8 ± 6.2 mm Hg preoperatively, and 51.1 ± 7.3 mm Hg postoperatively (P<0.001). The change in CT negatively correlated with the change in IOP (r=-0.785, P<0.001) and AL (r=-0.693, P<0.001), whereas it positively correlated with the change in OPP (r=0.418, P=0.008).

Conclusion: These results suggest that the large IOP decrease following trabeculectomy causes choroidal thickening. In addition, CT changes are associated with IOP and AL reduction as well as OPP increase.

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