SD OCT as a routine examination in diagnosis and therapy strategy for patients with cataract
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Chontos N., Gkiousas K., Mprouzoukis C., Gkiousas G., Chontos T.

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Purpose: To determine the usefulness of SD OCT as a routine examination in diagnosis and therapy strategy for patients with cataract.

 
Methods: Scan parameters: 50 to 101 B-scans, 37.150 to 80.194 total A-Scans, 5-10mm Scan width and 1,9 to 4,0 sec scan duration, used in 1174 cases divided in 2 groups.
Group A: cases with known medical history.
Group B: cases examined for the first time (people who usually do not visit doctors on a regular basis).
 
Results: 75 cases without any results, 831 cases with normal or low value findings, 148 cases with important findings.
 
Conclusion: The combination of cataract with fundus diseases is common. Thus, routine fundus noninvasive examination offers relatively safe prognosis, assists in documenting cases with pathological findings, improves the acceptance, cooperation and patient’s trust and helps in setting therapy strategy, as several cases must be treated before cataract extraction. Some cataract surgeons often avoid any preoperative invasive examinations. In many cases after cataract extraction, low visual acuity maybe found as a result of macular disease that had not been diagnosed preoperatively. The SD OCT as a noninvasive fundus examination, can serve this purpose.
 
 
 
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