• Department of Ophthalmology, Affiliated Hospital of Chengde Medical College, Chengde 067000, China;
Dong Weili, Email: wldcd@126.com
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Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is one of the most common retinal vascular diseases that cause blindness, and macular edema (ME) is often secondary to it, which causes serious visual impairment to patients. Imaging biomarkers in the changes of retina and choroid of ME secondary to RVO (RVO-ME) have important clinical value in the evaluation of condition, curative effect and visual acuity prediction of patients with RVO-ME. Among them, the disorganization of the retinal inner layers, the integrity of external limiting membrane and ellipsoid zone, and the change of central macular thickness are reliable indexes to evaluate the prognosis of visual acuity, hyperreflective foci, subretinal fluid and intraretinal fluid can be used as important parameters to reflect the level of inflammation, prominent middle limiting membrane and paracentral acute middle maculopathy are the objective basis for judging the degree of retinal ischemia, and the changes of choroidal vascular index and choroidal thickness also have potential advantages in evaluating the progress of the disease. An accurate grasp of the characteristics of imaging biomarkers is conducive to its reasonable and accurate use in the clinical diagnosis and treatment of RVO-ME, and helpful to further explore the pathogenesis of the disease.