Retinal microcirculation abnormalities in patients with systemic sclerosis: an explorative optical coherence tomography angiography study.

Adriano CarnevaliGiuseppe GiannaccareValentina GattiCaterina BattagliaGiorgio RandazzoAngeli Christy YuMarco PellegriniFrancesco FerraginaMario Damiano ToroCaterina BrunoVincenzo ScorciaFrancesco Ursini

Published in: Rheumatology (Oxford, England) (2021)

We showed the ability of OCT-A to disclose early ocular vascular abnormalities in patients with SSc. Our results may represent a hypothesis-generating basis for exploring the potential role of OCT-A in diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis stratification in SSc.

Keyphrases

systemic sclerosis
optical coherence tomography
optic nerve
diabetic retinopathy
interstitial lung disease
rheumatoid arthritis
risk assessment