マルコ　イチロウ   Maruko Ichirou   丸子　一朗    所属   医学部 医学科（東京女子医科大学病院）    職種   准教授
論文種別	原著
言語種別	英語
査読の有無	査読あり
表題	Detection of retrobulbar blood vessels in optical coherence tomography angiographic images in eyes with pathologic myopia.
掲載誌名	正式名：American journal of ophthalmology case reports 略　 称：Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep ISSNコード：24519936/24519936
掲載区分	国外
巻・号・頁	4,pp.74-77
著者・共著者	Maruko Ichiro, Koizumi Hideki, Hasegawa Taiji, Iida Tomohiro
担当区分	筆頭著者
発行年月	2016/12
概要	Purpose:To report the detection of retrobulbar blood vessel in the optical coherence tomography angiographic (OCTA) images of two eyes with pathologic myopia.Observations:Two eyes of 2 cases with pathologic myopia were examined by OCTA (RTVue XR Avanti, Optovue, and Cirrus 5000, Zeiss). Case 1 was a 64-year-old man, and Case 2 was a 65-year-old woman. In Case 1, the thickness of the subfoveal choroid was 38 μm and the sclera was 274 μm, and they were 17 μm and 214 μm, respectively, in Case 2. The axial length was 35.8 mm in Case 1 and 29.5 mm in Case 2. The choroidal vessels were clearly visible in the choriocapillary slab in both the RTVue and the Cirrus images. The vessels were visible in the area of the retinal pigment epithelial and choriocapillaris atrophy due to the pathologic myopia. The retrobulbar blood vessels temporal to fovea were seen in the OCTA images at the level of the outer aspect of the sclera in both cases. Cross sectional images of the retrobulbar blood vessel in both cases were observed under the sclera in serial scan images overlaid with blood flow.Conclusions:and Importance: These in situ images of the retrobulbar blood vessels that were obtained by OCTA was possible because of the thinness of the choroid and sclera and atrophy of the choriocapillaris in these eyes with pathologic myopia. We conclude that OCTA might have utility to study the retrobulbar vascular alterations in eyes with pathologic myopia.
DOI	10.1016/j.ajoc.2016.09.006
PMID	29503932