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RETINAL CAMERA
TO ASSESS CHANGES IN
CONE DENSITY
ccording to research presented by Paola changes following surgical closure. PHOTO CREDIT © NATALI_MIS - STOCK.ADOBE.COM
L Oquendo, MD, at the annual meeting of
Athe Canadian Ophthalmological Society Paolo Oquendo is a vitreoretinal clinical
held recently in Halifax, the Adaptive Optics (AO) research fellow, St. Michael’s Hospital/Unity
RTX-1 retinal camera has been used to measure Health Toronto, Department of Ophthalmology
photoreceptors pre-operatively and following and Vision Sciences University of Toronto.
macular hole (MH) surgery to accurately assess The hypothesis was that cone density will
any changes in cone density. change following macular hole closure as it is
likely that the temporal retina stretches to close
In the team’s small study, the retinal camera the macula hole. This could possibly result in a
was used with Spectral Domain Optical reduction of cone density temporally.
Coherence Tomography (SD-OCT) to evaluate
the photoreceptors in patients with various The study was of patients at the Kensington
morphology of the macular hole and to evaluate Vision and Research Center in Toronto with
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