Dr.Ruchir Mehta, M13882
Objective: To study average macular dimensions of pediatric population in India.
Methods: All children with normal visual acuity were included in the study. All individuals were subjected to examination with SD OCT (5 line raster) with minimum signal strength of 8.Results reviewed and data regarding central, nasal, temporal, superior and inferior macular area were collected in excel sheet, which was exported to SPSS 17.
Results: We studied 90 individuals between ages 7 and 18. 46 female and 44 males were included. Mean macular thickness in central subfield was 236.3, inner superior 311.4, inner inferior 304.5, inner temporal 293.3 and inner nasal 311.7 microns. We found central macular thickness significantly less in pediatric population (p=0.002) compared to our adult normative database
Conclusion: All commercially available machines have normative data from western countries which is different than Indian population, so we should build an Indian normative data.
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