Mohd Lokman Madihah, Catherine Bastion Mae-Lynn, Che Hamzah Jemaima
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Cheras, MYS.
Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, MYS.
Cureus. 2022 Dec 8;14(12):e32328. doi: 10.7759/cureus.32328. eCollection 2022 Dec.
Retinal artery macroaneurysm (RAM) is an acquired retinal arteriole dilatation with vision-threatening complications. Diagnosis of this condition can be made clinically, supported by multi-modal imaging modalities, commonly optical coherence tomography (OCT) and dye-based angiography studies which show the lesion itself and the complications to the adjacent retina. We report a case of an 83-year-old patient with renal impairment who had the diagnosis and monitoring of RAM done using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) as an alternative to conventional fluorescein angiography. This case highlighted the use of OCT-A using Cirrus 5000 with AngioPlex (Zeiss, Jena, Germany) as a useful diagnostic and monitoring tool for RAM with its features that enables objective quantification of the disease activity via vessel and perfusion density pre- and post-laser treatment.
视网膜动脉大动脉瘤(RAM)是一种后天性视网膜小动脉扩张,可导致威胁视力的并发症。这种疾病的诊断可通过临床作出,多模态成像方式(通常是光学相干断层扫描(OCT)和基于染料的血管造影研究)可提供支持,这些检查可显示病变本身以及相邻视网膜的并发症。我们报告了一例83岁肾功能不全患者,该患者使用光学相干断层扫描血管造影(OCT-A)替代传统荧光素血管造影进行RAM的诊断和监测。该病例突出了使用配备AngioPlex的Cirrus 5000(德国耶拿蔡司公司)进行OCT-A检查作为RAM的一种有用的诊断和监测工具,其功能能够通过激光治疗前后的血管和灌注密度对疾病活动进行客观量化。