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  • Title: The Comparison of Morphologic Characteristics of Type 1 and Type 2 Choroidal Neovascularization in Eyes with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography.
    Author: Zhao Z, Yang F, Gong Y, Yu S, Liu H, Wang H, Wang F, Sun X.
    Journal: Ophthalmologica; 2019; 242(3):178-186. PubMed ID: 31195396.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to use optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) to compare the morphology characteristics of type 1 and 2 choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This is a retrospective, observational study of 51 eyes with nAMD using OCTA from July 2016 through March 2017. RESULTS: In total, 51 eyes of 50 patients were included in the analysis. According to the anatomical classification based on OCT, 27 eyes (53%) were diagnosed with type 1 CNV, and 24 eyes (47%) were type 2 CNV. Type 2 CNV was characterized by smaller flow area, smaller greatest vascular caliber (GVC), smaller greatest linear dimension (GLD), and shorter duration of disease. The duration of disease only correlated with GVC (p = 0.026) in multivariate linear regression results. Meanwhile, GLD correlated with GVC and flow area whereas GVC was not associated with flow area. CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated that type 2 CNV was characterized by shorter duration of disease, smaller GVC, smaller GLD, and smaller flow area compared with type 1 CNV. Additionally, we showed that the duration of the disease correlated with GVC of the CNV.
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