TY - JOUR
T1 - Adaptive Optics Imaging of Retinal Photoreceptors Overlying Lesions in White Dot Syndrome and its Functional Correlation
AU - Agarwal, Aniruddha
AU - Soliman, Mohamed Kamel
AU - Hanout, Mostafa
AU - Sadiq, Mohammad Ali
AU - Sarwar, Salman
AU - Jack, Loren S.
AU - Do, Diana V.
AU - Nguyen, Quan Dong
AU - Sepah, Yasir J.
N1 - Funding Information:
All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest and none were reported. This work was supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB), New York, New York, USA to the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. The rtx1 Adaptive Optics imaging device employed in the study at the Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, has been acquired with generous support from the Otis Glebe Foundation, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. All authors attest that they meet the current ICMJE requirements to qualify as authors.
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© 2015 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2015/10/1
Y1 - 2015/10/1
N2 - Purpose To quantify retinal photoreceptor density using adaptive optics (AO) imaging and correlate it with retinal tomography, fundus autofluorescence, and retinal sensitivity overlying lesions in various white dot syndromes (WDS). Design Prospective cross-sectional study. Methods setting: Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. study population: Thirty-five lesions of WDS from 12 patients (19 eyes; mean age: 54.4 ± 15.8 years; 9 female) were analyzed. intervention: Macular lesions (≤3 regions of interest/eye), at 2 fixed eccentric loci, were imaged using AO, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, and fundus autofluorescence. In this study, lesions were defined as active if there was presence of hyperautofluorescence within the lesions. Photoreceptor density was calculated after manual correction and adjustment for axial length. Retinal sensitivity was assessed using microperimetry and correlated with photoreceptor density using Spearman rank correlation test. outcome measures: Mean retinal sensitivity and photoreceptor density at the WDS lesions. Results Mean photoreceptor density was 7331 ± 4628 cones/mm overlying 16 active lesions and 6546 ± 3775 cones/mm2 overlying 19 inactive lesions (P =.896). Mean retinal sensitivity (9.37 ± 5.34 dB) showed modest correlation with photoreceptor density (ρ = 0.42, P =.03). Retinal sensitivity over lesions with intact inner segment-outer segment (IS-OS) junction was 13.35 ± 3.75 dB and 6.33 ± 4.31 dB over lesions with disrupted IS-OS junction (P =.005). Conclusions AO imaging may allow high-resolution analysis of photoreceptor loss among lesions in WDS. Such microstructural changes may correlate with functional loss.
AB - Purpose To quantify retinal photoreceptor density using adaptive optics (AO) imaging and correlate it with retinal tomography, fundus autofluorescence, and retinal sensitivity overlying lesions in various white dot syndromes (WDS). Design Prospective cross-sectional study. Methods setting: Stanley M. Truhlsen Eye Institute, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA. study population: Thirty-five lesions of WDS from 12 patients (19 eyes; mean age: 54.4 ± 15.8 years; 9 female) were analyzed. intervention: Macular lesions (≤3 regions of interest/eye), at 2 fixed eccentric loci, were imaged using AO, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, and fundus autofluorescence. In this study, lesions were defined as active if there was presence of hyperautofluorescence within the lesions. Photoreceptor density was calculated after manual correction and adjustment for axial length. Retinal sensitivity was assessed using microperimetry and correlated with photoreceptor density using Spearman rank correlation test. outcome measures: Mean retinal sensitivity and photoreceptor density at the WDS lesions. Results Mean photoreceptor density was 7331 ± 4628 cones/mm overlying 16 active lesions and 6546 ± 3775 cones/mm2 overlying 19 inactive lesions (P =.896). Mean retinal sensitivity (9.37 ± 5.34 dB) showed modest correlation with photoreceptor density (ρ = 0.42, P =.03). Retinal sensitivity over lesions with intact inner segment-outer segment (IS-OS) junction was 13.35 ± 3.75 dB and 6.33 ± 4.31 dB over lesions with disrupted IS-OS junction (P =.005). Conclusions AO imaging may allow high-resolution analysis of photoreceptor loss among lesions in WDS. Such microstructural changes may correlate with functional loss.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ajo.2015.07.013
DO - 10.1016/j.ajo.2015.07.013
M3 - Article
C2 - 26189087
AN - SCOPUS:84941421516
SN - 0002-9394
VL - 160
SP - 806-816.e2
JO - American Journal of Ophthalmology
JF - American Journal of Ophthalmology
IS - 4
ER -