Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor

OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements in children with thalassemia minor. METHODS: In this cross-sectional and comparative study, 30 thalassemia minor patients and 36 controls were inclu...

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Autores principales: Acer, Semra, Balcı, Yasemin I, Pekel, Gökhan, Ongun, Tuğba T, Polat, Aziz, Çetin, Ebru N, Yağcı, Ramazan
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Publicado: SAGE Publications 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27540484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312116661683
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author Acer, Semra
Balcı, Yasemin I
Pekel, Gökhan
Ongun, Tuğba T
Polat, Aziz
Çetin, Ebru N
Yağcı, Ramazan
author_facet Acer, Semra
Balcı, Yasemin I
Pekel, Gökhan
Ongun, Tuğba T
Polat, Aziz
Çetin, Ebru N
Yağcı, Ramazan
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description OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements in children with thalassemia minor. METHODS: In this cross-sectional and comparative study, 30 thalassemia minor patients and 36 controls were included. Heidelberg spectral domain optical coherence tomography was used for peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements. RESULTS: There was no statistically significant difference in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and subfoveal choroidal thickness between the two groups (p > 0.05). There was no correlation between retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and hemoglobin values. Both the arterioral and venular calibers were higher in thalassemia minor group (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: There is increased retinal arterioral and venular calibers in children with thalassemia minor compared with controls.
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spelling pubmed-49734782016-08-18 Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor Acer, Semra Balcı, Yasemin I Pekel, Gökhan Ongun, Tuğba T Polat, Aziz Çetin, Ebru N Yağcı, Ramazan SAGE Open Med Original Article OBJECTIVES: Evaluation of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements in children with thalassemia minor. METHODS: In this cross-sectional and comparative study, 30 thalassemia minor patients and 36 controls were included. Heidelberg spectral domain optical coherence tomography was used for peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and retinal vessel caliber measurements. RESULTS: There was no statistically significant difference in retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and subfoveal choroidal thickness between the two groups (p > 0.05). There was no correlation between retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and hemoglobin values. Both the arterioral and venular calibers were higher in thalassemia minor group (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: There is increased retinal arterioral and venular calibers in children with thalassemia minor compared with controls. SAGE Publications 2016-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4973478/ /pubmed/27540484 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312116661683 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page(https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Acer, Semra
Balcı, Yasemin I
Pekel, Gökhan
Ongun, Tuğba T
Polat, Aziz
Çetin, Ebru N
Yağcı, Ramazan
Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title_full Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title_fullStr Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title_full_unstemmed Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title_short Retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
title_sort retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and retinal vessel calibers in children with thalassemia minor
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4973478/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27540484
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050312116661683
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