Reduced choroidal peripapillary capillaries in thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy with early stage of dysthyroid optic neuropathy  

作　　者：Jia-Hui Wu Li-Ying Luo Hao Zhou Ying Wu Jian Zhang Jin-Wei Cheng 

机构地区：[1]Department of Ophthalmology,Shanghai General Hospital,Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine,Shanghai Engineering Center for Precise Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Diseases,Shanghai Engineering Center for Visual Science and Photomedicine,National Clinical Research Center for Eye Diseases,Shanghai Key Laboratory of Ocular Fundus Diseases,Shanghai 200080,China [2]Department of Ophthalmology,Eye and ENT Hospital,Fudan University,Shanghai 200031,China

出　　处：《International Journal of Ophthalmology(English edition)》2022年第7期1135-1141,共7页国际眼科杂志（英文版）

基　　金：Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.81170874;No.81900868)。

摘　　要：AIM: To investigate whether the subtle change of choroidal/retinal vessel densities and volumes in thyroidassociated ophthalmopathy(TAO) could be an early sign to detect dysthyroid optic neuropathy(DON). METHODS: This was a retrospective cross-sectional study, and a total of 98 eyes from 50 subjects were enrolled under certain criteria. Thirty-four eyes of normal controls and 64 eyes of TAO, including 39 eyes of DON and 25 eyes of TAO without DON, underwent optical coherence tomography angiography(OCTA) scanning. All the tested parameters of OCTA scanning including choroid radial peripapillary capillaries(RPC), retinal nerve fiber layer(RNFL), and macular ganglion cell complex(GCC) were compared among groups, and the correlation between OCTA parameters and visual function parameters was also investigated. RESULTS: Whole choroidal RPC was significantly reduced in DON(48.24%±0.4978%) compared to normal(50.33%±0.3173%) and TAO without DON(49.16%±0.5463%;P=0.0041). The reduction of whole choroidal RPC was also correlated with visual field(VF) defect in DON(r=0.5422, n=39). Although vision acuity and VF were improved in all the patients with DON after being treated with medical and surgical decompression, the reduction of RPC density were not reversed.CONCLUSION: There is a notable reduction in choroidal RPC in DON, which is correlated with VF defect. The reduction of RPC density could not be reversed immediately by medical and surgical decompression even when vision and VF were improved. These findings suggest that choroidal RPC could be a useful parameter to diagnose and monitor early stage of DON.

关 键 词：dysthyroid optic neuropathy thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy choroidal radial peripapillary capillaries optical coherence tomography angiography optic nerve 

分 类 号：R581[医药卫生—内分泌] R771.3[医药卫生—内科学]