Abstract Objective: Poor sleep quality have affect on neuronal structure in central nervous system. We aimed to investigate the effects of sleep quality on the thickness of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), macula, and ganglion cell complex (GCC) obtained by optical coherence tomography (OCT) in healthy Caucasian adolescents. Methods: In this prospective cross-sectional study,100 healthy adolescents were evaluated for determining of sleep quality score by the Pittsburgh sleep quality index(PSQI) and were monitored for detection of sleep efficiency(%) by Sense […]

Objective: To compare macular and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thicknesses of dominant eye and non-dominant eye using optical coherence tomography (OCT). Methods: 104 eyes of 52 healthy young adults were included. Ophthalmological examinations; including measuring refraction, best corrected visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP) measurement, slit-lamb biomicroscopy, dilated fundus examination, measuring of central macular thickness (CMT), and peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (PRNFL) thickness were performed on each subject. Hole-in-the-card test was used to detect the ocular dominance. Results: There […]

Case report of a 46-year-old patient with unsatisfactory clinical controlled juvenile glaucoma and peripapillary retinoschisis who, after being submitted to non-penetrating deep sclerectomy, evolved with serous detachment of the neurosensory retina. The association between peripapillary retinoschisis and serous detachment after filtering surgery is rare and only one case has been described in the literature. The purpose of this report is, besides to emphasize the rarity of the association, to show the importance of investigating peripapillary retinoschisis in glaucomatous patients, especially […]

PURPOSE: To evaluate the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in sickle cell disease with optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS:The present study selected patients with sickle cell disease (SS) from the Federal University of Goias, and normalvolunteers, controlled by age and sex. Inclusion criteria for both groups were: visual acuity e” 20/30 without correction, intraocular pressure d” 21mmHg and a reliable and normal 24-2 Sita Standard visual field and optic disc. Thereafter, all subjects were submitted to OCT, Fast RNFL strategy, […]

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this work is to evaluate by means of the OCT Stratus the relation of the macular thickness with the thickness of nervous fiber layers. METHODS: In this work 106 eyes of the service of ophthalmology of the College of Medicine of the ABC had been analyzed. The study included 55 eyes that inside presented values of CFNR or above of the normal values in all the four quadrants and 51 eyes presenting values in only one […]

OBJECTIVE: To compare the thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)and the macular thickness of the amblyopic eye with those of the non-amblyopic eye in patients with unilateral amblyopia using optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS: OCT was performed for13 patients with unilateral amblyopia who had no neurologic disease. Nine male andfour female patients, whose ages ranged from 23 to 63 years, were enrolled in the study. The RNFL thickness average analysis program was used to evaluate mean superior, inferior, […]