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Retinal and choroidal vascularity changes in healthcare professionals wearing FFP3 respirators by Merve Beyza Yildiz; Sevcan Balci; Alev Özçelik Köse; Nursal Melda Yenerel; Hatice Elvin Yildiz is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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Purpose: To evaluate short-term retinal and choroidal vascularity changes in the healthcare professionals after four hours of use filtering facepiece respirators (FFR). Materials and Methods: This prospective study included 20 healthcare professionals. Oxygen saturation, pulse rate, systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), mean arterial pressure (MAP), mean ocular perfusion pressure (MOPP), and spectral domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging were evaluated at baseline and after four hours wearing of FFP3 FFRs without an exhalation valve. Superior temporal artery (STA), inferior temporal artery (ITA), superior temporal vein (STV), and inferior temporal vein (ITV) diameter were measured from OCT images. The total subfoveal choroidal area (TCA), luminal area (LA), stromal area (SA) choroidal vascularity index [(CVI), the ratio of LA to TCA] were determined after binarization of enhanced depth imaging OCT (EDI-OCT) images of the choroid. Results: The mean age of the participants was 27.35 ± 2.80 years (range, 25-34). Eight of them were female and 12 were male. After wearing the FFR for four hours, a significant decrease was observed in the mean DBP (p 1

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Author

Merve Beyza Yildiz; Sevcan Balci; Alev Özçelik Köse; Nursal Melda Yenerel; Hatice Elvin Yildiz

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)