Association of chorioretinal thickness with chronic kidney disease

To assess retinal and choroidal thickness changes in chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). CKD is a devastating health trouble. The eye and the kidney share similar structural and genetic pathways, so that kidney disease and ocular disease may be closely linked. OCT is a precise, fast method for high-definition scanning of the retina and choroid. A cross sectional study was conducted at Menoufia University Hospital ophthalmology department on 144 eyes of 72 CKD patients divided into 3 groups according to the stage of CKD as follows: group 1: CKD stage 1-2, with Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR) > 60 ml/min/1.73m group 2: CKD stage 3, GFR 30-59 ml/min/1.73m and group 3: CKD stage 4-5, eGFR