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Title Alternative | Choroidal Structure in Children with Anisohypermetropic Amblyopia
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Nishi, Tomo
Nara Medical University
Ueda, Tetsuo
Nara Medical University
Mizusawa, Yuutaro
Nara Medical University
Shinomiya, Kayo
Tokushima University
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Semba, Kentaro
Tokushima University
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Mitamura, Yoshinori
Tokushima University
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Sonoda, Shozo
Kagoshima University
Uchino, Eisuke
Kagoshima University
Sakamoto, Taiji
Kagoshima University
Ogata, Nahoko
Nara Medical University
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Journal Article
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Description | Purpose
To compare the choroidal structure of the subfoveal area in the eyes of children with anisohypermetropic amblyopia to that of the fellow eyes and to age-matched controls using a binarization method of the images obtained by enhanced depth imaging optical coherence tomography (EDI-OCT). Methods This study was performed at Nara Medical University Hospital, Tokushima University Hospital, and Kagoshima University Hospital, Japan. Forty amblyopic eyes with anisohypermetropic amblyopia and their fellow eyes (5.9 ± 2.1 years, mean ± standard deviation), and 103 age-matched controls (6.7 ± 2.4 years) were studied. The control eyes were divided into myopic, emmetropic, and hyperopic eyes. The total choroidal area, luminal area and stromal area of the subfoveal choroid were measured by the binarization method. The luminal/ stromal ratio and the axial length of the amblyopic eyes were compared to that of the control eyes. Results The total choroidal area in the amblyopic eyes was significantly larger than that of the fellow eyes (P = 0.005). The luminal/stromal ratio was significantly larger in the amblyopic eyes than that of the fellow eyes (P<0.001) and the control hyperopic eyes (P<0.001). There was a significant negative correlation between the luminal/stromal ratio and the axial length in the control eyes (r = -0.30, P = 0.001), but no significant correlation was found in the amblyopic eyes. Conclusions The choroidal structure of the amblyopic eyes was different from that of the fellow and the control hyperopic eyes. The choroidal changes are related to amblyopia. |
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PLOS ONE
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ISSN | 19326203
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Publisher | PLOS
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Volume | 11
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Issue | 10
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Start Page | e0164672
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Published Date | 2016-10-13
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Rights | Copyright: © 2016 Nishi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Medical Sciences
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