Abstract

GONZALEZ YGLESIAS, Yaney; MENDOZA SANTIESTEBAN, Carlos; LEON VEITIA, Lillian  and  MARTIN PAEZ, Yosbelkys. The employment of optic coherence tomography in the diagnosis of papilledema. MediSur [online]. 2009, vol.7, n.5, pp. 8-13. ISSN 1727-897X.

The optic coherence tomography  constitute one of the most revolucionary tool in the ophtalmic diagnosis in the latest years, and is very useful in the papilledema studies. Objectives: Evaluate the optic coherence tomography useful in papilledema diagnosis. Methods: Prospective, observacional and analytic study made since may to october 2007 in the neuroophtalmology deparment, Ophtalmology Cuban  Institute ? Ramón Pando ferrer?. Were studied 27 patients that presented a typical papilledema  in the first episode at least with 2 months of duration. Results: The female sex was predominant with 27 of  medium age. The medium thickness values of nervous fiber layer were stadistic important betwen the sectors (p=0.000). The nervous fiber layer thickness was predominant in order to frequency in lower, upper, nasal and temporal sectors. Conclusions: The optic coherence tomography constitute an useful instrument to papilledema diagnosis.

Keywords : Papilledema; tomography optical coherente; diagnosis.

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