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OCT-Angiography Appliance in Glaucoma

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Novel imaging techniques promotes and maintains the continuous development in ophthalmology. Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) is a new modality of angiography presented in recent years. This technology allows non-invasively visualize the vasculature in the retina and the choroid with high resolution and provides greater insight into various retinal vascular pathologies.

As a valuable method OCTA is adjusted for evaluation of microvascular contribution in quite common diseases affecting the central macula (such as age-related macular, degeneration (AMD), diabetic maculopathy, retinal vascular occlusion, macular telangiectasia type 2), rarer diseases (including sickle cell retinopathy) and the optic nerve disorders [1,2,3,4,5].

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    Akvile Stoskuviene

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Stoskuviene, A. (2019). OCT-Angiography Appliance in Glaucoma. In: Januleviciene, I., Harris, A. (eds) Biophysical Properties in Glaucoma. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98198-7_13

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