Serena Fragiotta1,2,3,4, Pedro Fernández-Avellaneda1,2,3,5, Mark P Breazzano1,2,3,6, Lawrence A Yannuzzi1,2,3,6, Christine A Curcio7, K Bailey Freund8,9,10. 1. Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, New York, NY, USA. 2. LuEsther T. Mertz Retinal Research Center, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York, NY, USA. 3. Department of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. 4. Department of Medico-Surgical Sciences and Biotechnologies, U.O.S.D. Ophthalmology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy. 5. Department of Ophthalmology, Basurto University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain. 6. Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA. 7. Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA. 8. Vitreous Retina Macula Consultants of New York, New York, NY, USA. kbfnyf@aol.com. 9. LuEsther T. Mertz Retinal Research Center, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, New York, NY, USA. kbfnyf@aol.com. 10. Department of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA. kbfnyf@aol.com.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To describe novel spectral-domain (SD) and swept-source (SS) optical coherence tomography (OCT) linear and planar reflection artifacts produced by hyperreflective crystalline deposits (HCD). METHODS: Imaging from 10 eyes with HCD producing linear and planar artifacts on OCT was retrospectively analyzed. All eyes had SD-OCT (Spectralis HRA + OCT, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany) and SS-OCT angiography (PLEX Elite 9000, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA) acquired on the same day. The horizontal extent of planar artifacts and the corresponding HCD on B-scans was measured using a digital caliper. Artifact features from HCD in eyes with non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were analyzed and compared to those seen in two eyes with the "onion sign," an OCT signature previously shown to represent cholesterol crystals (CC) in the sub-retinal pigment epithelium-basal laminar space of eyes with neovascular AMD. A third eye with the "onion sign" was imaged with dense B-scan (DB)-OCTA. RESULTS: Ten eyes of ten patients (77.4 ± 8.7 years) with HCD were analyzed. On SS-OCTA, HCD produced linear artifacts of high signal intensity passing through the HCD and spanning the entire scan depth. On SD-OCT, HCD produced planar artifacts located anterior to both the retina and a hyporeflective space representing normal vitreous signal. The horizontal extent of the artifact did not differ significantly from the corresponding HCD on OCT B-scans (P = 0.62). The OCT artifacts produced by the "onion sign" appeared similar to those of HCD. The additional eye with neovascular AMD imaged with DB-OCTA was characterized by a single, vertical, linear false-flow signal crossing retinal layers. CONCLUSIONS: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of SD- and SS-OCT/OCTA artifacts corresponding to both HCD and the "onion sign." These artifacts are likely due to highly reflective CC previously shown on histology to correspond to both of these OCT signatures.
PURPOSE: To describe novel spectral-domain (SD) and swept-source (SS) optical coherence tomography (OCT) linear and planar reflection artifacts produced by hyperreflective crystalline deposits (HCD). METHODS: Imaging from 10 eyes with HCD producing linear and planar artifacts on OCT was retrospectively analyzed. All eyes had SD-OCT (Spectralis HRA + OCT, Heidelberg Engineering, Germany) and SS-OCT angiography (PLEX Elite 9000, Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA) acquired on the same day. The horizontal extent of planar artifacts and the corresponding HCD on B-scans was measured using a digital caliper. Artifact features from HCD in eyes with non-neovascular age-related macular degeneration (AMD) were analyzed and compared to those seen in two eyes with the "onion sign," an OCT signature previously shown to represent cholesterol crystals (CC) in the sub-retinal pigment epithelium-basal laminar space of eyes with neovascular AMD. A third eye with the "onion sign" was imaged with dense B-scan (DB)-OCTA. RESULTS: Ten eyes of ten patients (77.4 ± 8.7 years) with HCD were analyzed. On SS-OCTA, HCD produced linear artifacts of high signal intensity passing through the HCD and spanning the entire scan depth. On SD-OCT, HCD produced planar artifacts located anterior to both the retina and a hyporeflective space representing normal vitreous signal. The horizontal extent of the artifact did not differ significantly from the corresponding HCD on OCT B-scans (P = 0.62). The OCT artifacts produced by the "onion sign" appeared similar to those of HCD. The additional eye with neovascular AMD imaged with DB-OCTA was characterized by a single, vertical, linear false-flow signal crossing retinal layers. CONCLUSIONS: To the authors' knowledge, this is the first description of SD- and SS-OCT/OCTA artifacts corresponding to both HCD and the "onion sign." These artifacts are likely due to highly reflective CC previously shown on histology to correspond to both of these OCT signatures.
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