Evaluation of Retinal Vascular Density in High Myopia Without Pathological Myopic Maculopathy Using OCTA .

Sohag University

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: High Myopia

Treatments: Other: optical coherence tomography angiography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06596408

Vascular Density in high Myope

Details and patient eligibility

About

Study aiming to evaluate Macular Vascular Density in High Myopes without pathological myopic maculopathy in outpatient clinic in Sohag teaching hospital using OCTA .

Full description

Study Design : This is a cross sectional observational study , of about 50 patients attending ophthalmology outpatient clinic at Sohag Teaching Hospital .

Inclusion criteria :

All myopic patients with axial high myopia (-6 spherical refractive error or more) attending the ophthalmology outpatient clinic .

Exclusion criteria :

The exclusion criteria will include :

• History of other any ocular diseases , systemic diseases that may affect the ocular circulation .
• Previous intraocular surgery or ocular injury .
• Any patient with pathological myopic maculopathy (epiretinal membrane, foveoschisis, macular holes, lamellar holes, Lacquers cracks, choroidal neovascularization and retinal atrophy ) .

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria wil include :

• All myopic patients with axial high myopia (-6 spherical refractive error or more) of different age groups .

Exclusion Criteria will include :

• -History of other any ocular diseases , systemic diseases that may affect the ocular circulation .
• Previous intraocular surgery or ocular injury .
• Any patient with pathological myopic maculopathy as epiretinal membrane, foveoschisis, macular holes, lamellar holes, Lacquers cracks, choroidal neovascularization and retinal atrophy .

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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50 participants in 1 patient group

High Myopes of spherical error -6 and more .

Experimental group

Description:

About 50 participants with high myopia will undergo evaluation of their macular vascular density using OCTA and also central macular thickness using OCT.

Treatment:

Other: optical coherence tomography angiography