A Study to Compare Fundus Fluorescein Angiography and Optical Coherence Tomography in Age Related Macular Degeneration

PURPOSE compare the diagnostic accuracy of optical coherence tomography with Fundus Fluorescein Angiography in diagnosing Age macular degeneration. total 25 patients newly diagnosed as Age related macular degeneration were included in the study. The study was done during time period between August 2013 to November 2015 this is a prospective randomized hospital based study. no of patients affected belonged to the age group of 50-70 years and 60% were females. The most common symptom defective vision accounting for 92%. Hypertension and hyperlipidemia were the most common risk factors. 12% of the had unilateral disease and 88% had bilateral disease. 6% of eyes were normal in both FFA and OCT. 62% of the eyes by and 61% of the eyes by OCT had dry ARMD and 32 % of the eye by FFA and 33 % by OCT had wet ARMD. Fluorescein Angiography is the gold standard tool for screening ARMD and OCT is more specific in detecting early neovascular membrane and also to assess the activity of the neovascular membranes. Hence OCT is superior to FFA diagnosing early wet ARMD and thus helps in early management of patients with ARMD.