Artificial Intelligence Analysis And Data Processing Of Oct Angiography Cystoid Macula Edema (Cme) Documentation Peri-Operative Uneventful Cataract Surgery
Published 2024 - 42nd Congress of the ESCRS
Reference: PO363 | Type: Poster | DOI: 10.82333/zz5v-j393
Authors: Athanasios Zisimopoulos* 1 , Anastasios John Kanellopoulos 2
1Ophthalmology,LaserVision Ambulatory Eye Surgery Unit,Athens,Greece, 2Ophthalmology,LaserVision Ambulatory Eye Surgery Unit,Athens,Greece;Ophthalmology,NYU Med School,New York,United States
Purpose
OCT angio quantitative and qualitative database analysis from AI software, to investigate Correlation of OCT angio difference perioperative uneventful cataract surgery
Setting
The Laservision Clinical and Research Institute, Athens, Greece
Methods
Of 700 consecutive cases of uncomplicated cataract surgery were evaluated retrospectively, for the pre-operative and the 6 weeks post-operative exam for the following parameters: UDVA, CDVA, pinhole acuity, widefield fundoscopy and autofluorescence (Optos California, USA), and OCT angiography (Avanti, Optovue, CA, USA)
Results
5% of the eyes revealed macular edema at 6 weeks post-operatively that was respectively treated; macular thickness in these cases changed from 277± 10.7 μm to 422.5±23.4μm in the 2 time points we noted above. Of these CME eyes (35 of the 700-case sample evaluated) 28 revealed non-symptomatic ERM documented in pre-op OCT angiography.
Conclusions
These data suggest that 1 in 20 uneventful cataract procedures may be complicated by late CME 2 weeks following topical corticosteroid tapering, possibly implicating pre-existing non-clinically significant OCT documented ERM, as a predisposing factor.