Xiaoyu Xu1, Xing Liu1, Xiaolin Wang2, Mark E Clark2, Gerald McGwin3, Cynthia Owsley2, Christine A Curcio2, Yuhua Zhang4. 1. State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China. 2. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. 3. Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. 4. Department of Ophthalmology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Electronic address: zhanghua@uab.edu.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To test whether increased light transmission (hypertransmission) through subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD) into the choroid in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) represented retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: Nineteen eyes of 12 patients with early- to intermediate-stage AMD and 18 eyes of 12 normal subjects were evaluated with color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and high-resolution adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) at baseline and 24 months later. SDD were classified using an OCT-based 3-stage grading system. Hypertransmission beneath SDD into the choroid was examined in OCT. SDD microstructure was assessed with AOSLO. To characterize the hypertransmission-associated chorioretinal degeneration, choroidal thickness and photoreceptor length were measured in OCT at 1 mm and 2 mm superior, inferior, temporal, and nasal to the foveal center. RESULTS: OCT disclosed hypertransmission beneath stage 3 SDD in 8 eyes. These lesions showed a distinctive regressing structure in AOSLO, compared with stage 3 lesions without hypertransmission. The phenomenon persisted at follow-up, and new hypertransmission developed as SDD advanced. In eyes with hypertransmission, choroids were thinner than those of normal eyes at all sites (by 44%-56%, P ≤ .0028) and those of eyes with SDD but without hypertransmission at superior and temporal sites (by 31%-46%, P ≤ .039). Photoreceptors were significantly shorter than those in normal eyes (by 6%-26%, P ≤ .0379). CONCLUSIONS: Hypertransmission into the choroid, accompanied with SDD regression and thinning of choroid and photoreceptor layers, indicates RPE degeneration associated with advanced stages in the SDD life cycle.
PURPOSE: To test whether increased light transmission (hypertransmission) through subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD) into the choroid in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) represented retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) degeneration. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. METHODS: Nineteen eyes of 12 patients with early- to intermediate-stage AMD and 18 eyes of 12 normal subjects were evaluated with color fundus photography, optical coherence tomography (OCT), and high-resolution adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) at baseline and 24 months later. SDD were classified using an OCT-based 3-stage grading system. Hypertransmission beneath SDD into the choroid was examined in OCT. SDD microstructure was assessed with AOSLO. To characterize the hypertransmission-associated chorioretinal degeneration, choroidal thickness and photoreceptor length were measured in OCT at 1 mm and 2 mm superior, inferior, temporal, and nasal to the foveal center. RESULTS: OCT disclosed hypertransmission beneath stage 3 SDD in 8 eyes. These lesions showed a distinctive regressing structure in AOSLO, compared with stage 3 lesions without hypertransmission. The phenomenon persisted at follow-up, and new hypertransmission developed as SDD advanced. In eyes with hypertransmission, choroids were thinner than those of normal eyes at all sites (by 44%-56%, P ≤ .0028) and those of eyes with SDD but without hypertransmission at superior and temporal sites (by 31%-46%, P ≤ .039). Photoreceptors were significantly shorter than those in normal eyes (by 6%-26%, P ≤ .0379). CONCLUSIONS: Hypertransmission into the choroid, accompanied with SDD regression and thinning of choroid and photoreceptor layers, indicates RPE degeneration associated with advanced stages in the SDD life cycle.
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