Dr. Satyam Gupta, Dr. Shreya Shah, Dr. Jemini Shrigovind Pandya, Dr. Saurabh N Shah
Aim: To study the central macular thickness in amblyopia using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).
Methods: Retrospective institutional study of patients 1 to 21 years of age with unilateral amblyopia (strabismic or anisometropic) and non-amblyopic eye. Macular thicknesses were measured using SD-OCT and compared between fellow eyes. Their details were noted in a preformed format. Statistical analysis by SPSS 22.0 was done. Results: The mean age was 12.3 (±4) years; 70 eyes had amblyopia: 22 strabismus and 34 anisometropic. 10 had idiopathic amblyopia. The mean macular thickness was almost same in the amblyopic (233.27 μm ± 33.47) vs fellow eyes (233.92 μm ± 26.7), P=0.514. The vision of amblyopic eye to fellow eye was statistically significant (P<0.03) & similar pattern was noted between age and gender (P<0.79.)
Conclusion: Central macular thickness was not statistically different in our study in amblyopic vs fellow eye.