THE EVALUATION OF THE STATE OF CHOROID IN THE PATIENTS PRESENTING WITH UVEITIS OF DIFFERENT ETIOLOGY BASED ON THE RESULTS OF OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY


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The evaluation of the state of choroid in the patients presenting with uveitis is one of the promising directions in modern ophthalmological diagnostics because it provides the opportunity for obtaining the objective quantitative characteristics of the activity of the inflammatory process and thereby makes it possible to more accurately estimate the effectiveness of the treatment. It has been shown that the thickness of choroid considerably increases during the acute phase of Vogt-Koyanangi-Harada disease, active uveitis associated with Behcet’s disease, sarcoidosis, and toxoplasmosis and returns to the normal value under the influence of the treatment. In certain cases, the thickness of choroid decreases in comparison with that in the healthy eyes. The thinning of choroid was documented also at the stage of the clinical remission of birdshot retinochoroidopathy, Fuchs syndrome-associated uveitis, posterior non-infectious and idiopathic pan-uveites. It can possibly be the result of the atrophy of choroid due to the inflammatory and ischemic processes. Unfortunately, the available literature data have been obtained in disconnected studies of the choroid of the patients suffering from uveitis that involved only the small number of the patients and were confined to a few selected etiological and pathogenetic structural variants of this condition.

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L. A Katargina

The Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Russian Ministry of health

Moscow, 105062, Russian Federation

E. V Denisova

The Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Russian Ministry of health

Moscow, 105062, Russian Federation

O. V Novikova

The Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases, Russian Ministry of health

Email: olganovv@mail.ru
аспирант отдела патологии глаз у детей ФГБУ «Московский НИИ глазных болезней им. Гельмгольца» Минздрава России, 105062, Москва. Moscow, 105062, Russian Federation

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