| Abstract: | PurposeTo demonstrate the marginal corneal vascular remodelling using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) after pterygium surgery.MethodsTwenty-two eyes of 19 patients (8 males, 11 females; age, 58.68 ± 0.34 years) with primary grade-T3 nasal pterygium were enroled in this study. The eyes underwent excision of the pterygium followed by a free limbal-conjunctival autograft. OCTA was performed in the nasal limbal area before surgery and at 10 days, 1 month, and 3 months after surgery. The scans were analyzed in terms of postoperative vascular remodelling of the autograft and marginal corneal vascular arcades (MCAs).ResultsPreoperatively, the pterygium presented as abnormal centripetal vascular growth in OCTA scans. The conjunctival vessel density in the nasal quadrant was 29.26% ± 1.00%, 15.80% ± 0.83%, 19.80% ± 0.88%, and 20.26% ± 0.89% before and 10 days, 1 month, and 3 months, respectively, after surgery (F = 1.55, P < 0.01). The vessel density of MCAs was 28.33% ± 0.88%, 42.09% ± 0.41%, and 42.46% ± 0.31% 10 days, 1 month, and 3 months, respectively, after surgery (F = 188.2, P < 0.01).ConclusionsWe describe a new application of OCTA for MCA vasculature imaging. Vascular remodelling of the graft and MCAs appeared at 1 month and continued for 3 months after surgery.Subject terms: Conjunctival diseases, Corneal diseases |
