Evaluation of the optic nerve head vessel density in patients with limited scleroderma.

Hilal Kilinç Hekimsoy Mehmet Ali ŞekeroğluAli Mert KoçerVedat HekimsoyAli Akdoğan

Published in: Therapeutic advances in ophthalmology (2021)

Decreased peripapillary vessel density on OCTA, which can be an early sign of glaucoma, could not be observed in scleroderma patients in this study. However, further long-term studies are still needed to identify glaucoma tendency in patients with scleroderma before clinically detectable glaucoma.

Keyphrases

optic nerve
systemic sclerosis
optical coherence tomography
end stage renal disease
interstitial lung disease
ejection fraction
chronic kidney disease
prognostic factors
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes
patient reported