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Comparative analysis of choroidal thickness in third trimester pregnant women

BACKGROUND: The impact of pregnancy on the choroid is still under investigation. The aim of this study is to compare choroidal thickness measurements of healthy pregnant women in the third trimester and healthy non-pregnant women using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS: Thi...

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Autores principales: Benfica, Camila Zanella, Zanella, Teresinha, Farias, Lucas Brandolt, Oppermann, Maria Lúcia Rocha, Canani, Luis Henrique Santos, Lavinsky, Daniel
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29423278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40942-018-0108-0
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author Benfica, Camila Zanella
Zanella, Teresinha
Farias, Lucas Brandolt
Oppermann, Maria Lúcia Rocha
Canani, Luis Henrique Santos
Lavinsky, Daniel
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Zanella, Teresinha
Farias, Lucas Brandolt
Oppermann, Maria Lúcia Rocha
Canani, Luis Henrique Santos
Lavinsky, Daniel
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description BACKGROUND: The impact of pregnancy on the choroid is still under investigation. The aim of this study is to compare choroidal thickness measurements of healthy pregnant women in the third trimester and healthy non-pregnant women using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 122 eyes of 61 women, divided into two groups: 27 healthy pregnant women in the third trimester and 34 age-matched healthy non-pregnant women. Choroidal thickness was measured using Enhanced Depth Imaging OCT at ten different locations: at the fovea and every 500 µm from the fovea up to 2500 µm temporally and up to 2000 µm nasally. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the ten measurements of choroidal thickness comparing both groups. Mean subfoveal choroidal thickness was 304.1 + 9.6 µm in the control group and 318.1 + 15.6 µm in the pregnant women group (p = 0.446). There was also no statistically significant association between gestational age and choroidal thickness measurements in the healthy pregnant women group. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed no statistically difference in choroidal thickness between healthy non-pregnant women and healthy pregnant women in the third trimester.
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spelling pubmed-57879212018-02-08 Comparative analysis of choroidal thickness in third trimester pregnant women Benfica, Camila Zanella Zanella, Teresinha Farias, Lucas Brandolt Oppermann, Maria Lúcia Rocha Canani, Luis Henrique Santos Lavinsky, Daniel Int J Retina Vitreous Original Article BACKGROUND: The impact of pregnancy on the choroid is still under investigation. The aim of this study is to compare choroidal thickness measurements of healthy pregnant women in the third trimester and healthy non-pregnant women using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT). METHODS: This cross-sectional study included 122 eyes of 61 women, divided into two groups: 27 healthy pregnant women in the third trimester and 34 age-matched healthy non-pregnant women. Choroidal thickness was measured using Enhanced Depth Imaging OCT at ten different locations: at the fovea and every 500 µm from the fovea up to 2500 µm temporally and up to 2000 µm nasally. RESULTS: There were no significant differences in the ten measurements of choroidal thickness comparing both groups. Mean subfoveal choroidal thickness was 304.1 + 9.6 µm in the control group and 318.1 + 15.6 µm in the pregnant women group (p = 0.446). There was also no statistically significant association between gestational age and choroidal thickness measurements in the healthy pregnant women group. CONCLUSIONS: Our study showed no statistically difference in choroidal thickness between healthy non-pregnant women and healthy pregnant women in the third trimester. BioMed Central 2018-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5787921/ /pubmed/29423278 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40942-018-0108-0 Text en © The Author(s) 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Benfica, Camila Zanella
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Lavinsky, Daniel
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title_short Comparative analysis of choroidal thickness in third trimester pregnant women
title_sort comparative analysis of choroidal thickness in third trimester pregnant women
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5787921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29423278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40942-018-0108-0
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