Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) Visualization of Anterior Vitritis

The clinical grading of vitreous haze presents some limitations such as subjectivity and intra-grader variability. On the other hand the proposed OCT-based methods only explore the posterior part of the vitreous. Here we describe the inflammatory changes affecting the anterior vitreous imaged by Anterior Segment Optical Coherence,Tomography (AS-OCT) from patients affected by uveitis. The AS-OCT (Anterion, Heidelberg Engineering, Heidelberg, Germany) detected vitreous sheets, vitreous lacunae, and formations resembling inflammatory cells, providing an objective characterization of the inflammatory changes in the anterior vitreous as well as their relationships with the other ocular structures.

Automated summary

Clinical grading of vitreous haze has limitations, while the use of Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography (AS-OCT) imaging can provide an objective characterization of inflammatory changes in the anterior vitreous.