EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR THE PROGNOSIS OF NEOVASCULAR COMPLICATIONS IN THE RETINA IN PATIENTS WITH MACULAR EDEMA ON THE BACKGROUND OF POST-THROMBOTIC RETINOPATHY
Currently, optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been widely used to assess the qualitative and quantitative characteristics of macular edema in patients who have undergone CVR branch thrombosis. The aim of the study was to develop OC-tomographic evaluation criteria for predicting the development of neovascular complications in the retina in patients with post-thrombotic retinopathy during antiangiogenic therapy of macular edema. Two statistically comparable clinical groups of 60 patients each with post-thrombotic retinopathy and different variants of morphometric characteristics of post-thrombotic macular edema (PTME) were formed. In the first group, the value of the average macular volume (SMV) was from 7.2 m? to 12.0 mm?, in the second group, the SMV was from 12.0 mm? to 18.4 mm?. The prognosis for the development of neovascular complications according to the authors ' proposed PTME score scale for 9 standard OCT-grid zones corresponded to the clinical effectiveness of antiangiogenic therapy in the compared groups. Tomographic characteristics of PTME using a point scale for 9 standard zones of the OCT-grid have shown their objectivity in the clinical results of comparing the effectiveness of antiangiogenic therapy between two clinical groups with different parameters of macular edema volume and can be proposed as an evaluation criterion for predicting the development of neovascular complications in the retina in patients with vascular pathology of the eye.