Clinical Study on the Characteristics of Peripapillary Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer Thickness and Fundus Blood Flow Parameters in Children with Rapid Myopia Progression
Abstract:Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics of macular and peripapillary microstructures and blood perfusion in children with rapid myopic progression using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Methods: In this case-control study, 40 children aged 7-14 years with rapid myopia progression (myopia progression in one year >1.00 D) and 39 children with stable progression (myopia progression in one year ≤0.50 D) were included. Macular vessel densities of the superficial and deep capillary plexuses (SCP, DCP, respectively) and peripapillaryretinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness were measured by clinical OCTA. The retinal blood flow parameters and the thickness of the peripapillary RNFL were analyzed. The blood flow parameters and RNFL thickness between the two groups were compared by covariance analysis, and the correlations between axial length, refraction, retinal thickness and blood flow density were analyzed by Pearson correlation. Results: There was no significant difference in axial length between the rapid progression group and stable progression group (24.7±0.9 vs. 24.5±0.8, respectively). There was no significant difference in the parameters of retinal blood flow between the two groups, whether in the 3 mm macular area of the superficial or deep vascular network or the 4.5 mm optic papilla area. However, the thickness of the RNFL in the superior-nasal, nasal-superior, nasal-inferior and inferiornasal parts of the peripapillary in the rapid progression group was significantly thinner. At the same time, there was no significant correlation between myopia progression and fundus blood flow parameters, but there was a negative correlation between myopia progression and RNFL thickness in the nasal peripapillary region. Conclusions: Rapid myopia progression is not accompanied by an abnormal fundus blood flow density, but it can be accompanied by thinning of the peripapillary RNFL thickness. The prediction of the rate of myopia development needs further study.
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