Purpose: To correlate sectoral choroidal vascularity with angiographic leakage in eyes with central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR).
Methods: This was a retrospective, cross-sectional study including patients with active CSCR. Multimodal imaging including fundus fluorescein angiography (FFA) and optical coherence tomography (OCT) were performed to identify leakage site and obtain choroidal measurements, respectively. An automated algorithm was used to perform shadow compensation, choroidal boundary localization and binarization, three (3-D) dimensional mapping, and early treatment of diabetic retinopathy study (ETDRS) grid based choroidal quantification that is, choroidal thickness (CT) and choroidal vascularity index (CVI). Nested analysis of variance (ANOVA) was performed to compare CT and CVI in different sectors.
Results: Thirty-two eyes with active CSCR were analyzed. CT values varied significantly among the sectors (range, 450.27-482.63 µm; p = 0.005) and rings (range, 459.71-480.45 µm; p < 0.001), however, CVI failed to show significant variation among various segments (sectors, rings, and quadrants; range, 0.53-0.54; all p values > 0.05). Among 25 leaking spots in 25 different sectors, 12 (48%) had an increased CT compared to the overall CT whereas only 24% had increased CVI compared to overall CVI. Mean CT and CVI of the sectors with leakage (427.1 ± 81.1 µm; 0.51 ± 0.05) and remaining sectors without leakage (411.3 ± 73.9 µm; 0.53 ± 0.04) were not statistically different (p = 0.48; p = 0.12, respectively).
Conclusion: Though CT varied in different segments and increased CT corresponded to leakage points on FFA in 48% of eyes, CVI changes were more diffusely spread and local changes in CVI were not predictive of leakage location in eyes with active CSCR.
Keywords: Retinal pathology/research; anatomy/biochemistry/physiology; central serous chorioretinopathy; pediatric ophthalmology; retina – medical therapies; vitreous/retinal disease.