Macular retinal and choroidal thickness in unilateral amblyopia using swept-source optical coherence tomography

BMC Ophthalmology

Table 5 GCL+IPL thickness in the strabismic amblyopia and normal control eyes

	Strabismic amblyopia			p value^a (after adjusting for AL)
	AE (n = 15)	FE (n = 15)	NE (n = 24)	AE vs FE	AE vs NE	FE vs NE
ETDRS maps
Center 1 mm	43.5 ± 9.3	45.1 ± 12.1	44.5 ± 6.3	0.65	0.63	0.27
Inner ring (1-3 mm)
Superior	91.4 ± 5.3	91.6 ± 5.2	91.1 ± 4.7	0.88	0.93	0.79
Nasal	93.3 ± 7.0	92.7 ± 6.2	92.9 ± 4.9	0.96	0.29	0.23
Inferior	92.7 ± 5.3	90.9 ± 5.7	90.8 ± 5.1	0.32	0.18	0.29
Temporal	87.0 ± 5.6	87.5 ± 6.4	87.8 ± 5.2	0.83	0.78	0.49
Outer ring (3-6 mm)
Superior	67.7 ± 6.4	69.0 ± 7.9	64.6 ± 5.9	0.97	0.98	0.98
Nasal	72.1 ± 8.1	75.5 ± 8.1	70.0 ± 6.6	0.19	0.88	0.15
Inferior	63.0 ± 6.5	65.9 ± 7.9	61.7 ± 7.1	0.17	0.80	0.43
Temporal	71.1 ± 5.4	73.0 ± 5.4	70.0 ± 5.7	0.83	0.30	0.21
Center 6 mm	75.8 ± 3.7	76.8 ± 3.7	74.8 ± 4.2	0.94	0.73	0.67

AE: Amblyopic eyes; FE: Fellow eyes; NE: Normal control eyes; ETDRS: early treatment diabetic retinopathy study; AL: axial length
^a ANCOVA; ** p < 0.01; * p < 0.05
Values are shown as mean ± standard deviation (μm)

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