Pilot Study: Retinal Vascular Network and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Pilot Study: Retinal Vascular Network and Obstructive Sleep Apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is thought to lead to systemic vascular lesions that may be preceded by early microvascular lesions in the eyes and in particular in the retina. The improvement of ophthalmological imaging techniques by OCTangiography allows a precise non-invasive study of the retinal microvascular network. This new rapid and non-invasive retinal imaging tool could reveal micro-vascular lesions related to OSA. To the investigator's knowledge, this would be the first OCT-angiography description of a cohort of patients with OSA. If these results are confirmed, it would be interesting to study the correlation between these micro-vascular lesions and the cardiovascular risk of his patients.
Inclusion Criteria:
Patient group:
- Patient seen in sleep apnea screening consultation by a pulmonologist and referred for polysomnography diagnosis of OSA
Control Group:
- Person initially without obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Exclusion Criteria:
Control Group:
person with a history of chronic lung problems (e.g. COPD, chronic respiratory failure, etc.)
person with at least one of the following risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea syndrome:
Exclusion criteria: positive result in one of the 3 self-questionnaires