LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Optical coherence tomography in neurodegenerative disorders

ABSTRACT Structural imaging of the brain is the most widely used diagnostic tool for investigating neurodegenerative diseases. More advanced structural imaging techniques have been applied to early or prodromic phases, but they are expensive and not widely available. Therefore, it is highly desirable to ...

Optical coherence tomography findings in bipolar disorder: a preliminary receiver operating characteristic analysis on ganglion cell layer volume for diagnosis

ALICI, SONER; ONUR, ÖZGE ŞAHMELIKOĞLU; ÇAVUŞOĞLU, ERCAN; ONUR, ISMAIL UMUT; ERKIRAN, MURAT.

Arch. Clin. Psychiatry (Impr.); 46 (5), 2019

Abstract Background Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been recently used to investigate neuropsychiatric disorders. Objective The aim of this study was to compare the retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) and the ganglion cell layer (GCL) volume in patients with type 1 bipolar disorder (BP...

Tomografía de Coherencia Óptica, Trastorno Bipolar/diagnóstico por imagen, Fibras Nerviosas/patología, Células Ganglionares de la Retina/patología, Escalas de Valoración Psiquiátrica, Encuestas y Cuestionarios, Entrevista Psicológica, Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/diagnóstico por imagen, Análisis de Regresión, Compuestos de Litio/uso terapéutico, Ácido Valproico/uso terapéutico, Trastorno Bipolar/tratamiento farmacológico, Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas/prevención & control, Antimaníacos/uso terapéutico, Ácido Valproico/farmacología, Compuestos de Litio/farmacología, Antimaníacos/farmacología

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