Purpose To evaluate changes that occur in foveal avascular zone (FAZ) in diabetic hypertensive patients by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA).
Patients and methods OCTA was performed for 60 eyes of 35 diabetic hypertensive patients. This study was done in Benha University Hospital between February and June 2021. FAZ area was measured by a frame that was centered around it. Moreover, the vessel density was measured also by detecting the superficial vessel density (SVD) and the deep vessel density (DVD).
Results In diabetic hypertensive (60 eyes of 35 patients) with average age 55.52 (±6.88) years and mean duration of the disease 12.17 (±7.15) years, the mean value of the FAZ was 0.37 (±0.54) mm, denoting enlargement of the FAZ diameter. In addition, the vessel density showed that there is decreasing in the SVD (43.9±5.89) and it was correlated to the best-corrected visual acuity and age of the patients (P