J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  2014 Jun;55(6):860-867.

Diagnostic Abilities to Detect Glaucomatous Abnormality Using Normal Retinal Thickness Measured by Optical Coherence Tomography

• Bae EJ
• Kim KL
• Yoo YC

Abstract

PURPOSE
Recently, the introduction of spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) has enabled measurement of retinal thickness in the posterior pole in 64 sectors. SD-OCT was used to evaluate the diagnostic effectiveness in detecting glaucomatous abnormality of visual field sensitivity. A normal value for retinal thickness was determined and then compared in corresponding local sectors.
METHODS
Thirty healthy controls and 30 glaucoma subjects were evaluated. Macular thickness values from the 4 adjacent square cells in an 8 x 8 posterior pole retinal thickness map were averaged for a mean retinal thickness (MRT) value. A normative database was prepared using the data from the healthy eyes of this study to determine the diagnostic criteria for MRT. If the MRT value was <5% (Criteria A) or <1% (Criteria B) of the normative database, it was considered to be abnormal. The abnormalities of the MRT value for each diagnostic criteria were compared with the visual field sensitivity results in the corresponding positions.
RESULTS
The concordance of abnormalities between MRT and visual field sensitivity at 16 measured points was low in both criteria A (Kappa value; -0.418~0.429) and B (Kappa value; -0.363~0.444). Based on the results of the visual field at each focal point, the sensitivities and specificities of MRT values using the 2 criteria ranged from 0% to 100%.
CONCLUSIONS
In this study, MRT values showed low correlation and diagnostic ability to detect decreased sensitivity of the visual field in corresponding points, when customized criteria derived from a normative database were applied.

Keyword

Glaucoma; Retinal thickness; Spectral domain optical coherence tomography; Standard automated perimetry; Visual field sensitivity

MeSH Terms

Glaucoma
Reference Values
Retinaldehyde*
Tomography, Optical Coherence*
Visual Fields
Retinaldehyde

Figure

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  Figure 1. The mean retinal thickness mapping corresponding to the visual field sensitivity. (A) A macular thickness map yielded by posterior pole asymmetry analysis of spectral domain optical coherence tomography is divided into 64 squares centered on the fovea. (B) We divided both the superior and inferior hemifields into 8 sectorsparts based on the horizontal raphe. Retinal thickness values of 4 ad-jacent square cells in the 8 χ8 grid of the posterior pole thickness map were averaged on the mean retinal thickness value. (C) Among the 52 test points of the central 24-2 pattern, the central 4 ×4 points corresponding to the 24° χ 24° posterior pole thickness map of the SPECTRALIS spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) were considered. Same number between (B) and (C) indicated a pair of sector to undergo statistical analysis.

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