Javier Obis
Miguel Servet University Hospital, Spain
Title: Use of optical coherence tomography to assess retinal degeneration in patients with Parkinson’s disease
Biography:
Javier Obis is an Ophthalmologist, has expertise in ophthalmological alterations related to Parkinson’s disease. He has published several articles in PubMed about
retinal and choroid alterations measured with OCT in neurological diseases, especially in PD. He has researches on visual alterations related with PD and other neurological diseases. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis, which studies the retinal and choroid thickness alterations that appear in patients with PD and also the visual alterations that these patients suffer.
Abstract:
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative process that causes a selective loss of dopaminergic neurons, affecting the basal ganglia and also the intra retinal dopaminergic circuitry. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive
imaging technique used in ophthalmology to evaluate the layers of the retina. The study aims to evaluate changes in the macular thickness and in the Retinal Nerve Fiber Layer (RNFL) after a 4 years follow up in patients with PD.