Advances and Potential New Developments in Imaging Techniques for Posterior Uveitis. Part 1: Noninvasive Imaging Methods

Overview

Journal Eye (Lond)

Specialty Ophthalmology

Date 2020 Jul 18

PMID 32678354

Citations 6

Authors

Ilknur Tugal-Tutkun

Carl P Herbort Jr

Alessandro Mantovani

Piergiorgio Neri

Moncef Khairallah

Affiliations

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Abstract

The aim of this review was to identify the imaging methods at our disposal to optimally manage posterior uveitis at the present time. The focus was put on methods that have become available since the 1990s, some 30 years after fluorescein angiography had revolutionized imaging of posterior uveitis in particular imaging of the retinal vascular structures in the 1960s. We have focussed our review on precise imaging methods that have been standardized and validated and can be used universally thanks to commercially produced and available instruments for the diagnosis and follow-up of posterior uveitis. The first part of this imaging review will deal with noninvasive imaging methods, focusing on fundus autofluorescence and optical coherence tomography as well as recent developments in imaging of the posterior segment.

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