Francesco Pichi1,2, Scott D Smith3,4, Emad B Abboud3, Piergiorgio Neri3,4, Elizabeth Woodstock3, Steven Hay3, Emily Levine5,6, Caroline R Baumal5,6. 1. Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Al Maryah Island, PO Box 112412, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. ilmiticopicchio@gmail.com. 2. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. ilmiticopicchio@gmail.com. 3. Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Al Maryah Island, PO Box 112412, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. 4. Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, USA. 5. New England Eye Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA. 6. Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To compare the ability of wide-field optical coherence tomography angiography (WF-OCTA) to that of ultra-wide field fluorescein angiography (UWF-FA) and ultra-wide-field color fundus photography (UWF-CP) to detect retinal neovascularization (NV) in eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, naïve patients with active PDR underwent UWF-FA and UWF-CP using the Optos 200Tx and WF-OCTA with 12 × 12 mm fields of five visual fixations using the PLEX Elite 9000. NV was defined on OCTA when the co-registered B-scan with flow overlay of the vitreoretinal interface (VRI) segmentation showed extraretinal proliferation. Three masked readers examined the UWF-FA, UWF-CP, and WF-OCTA independently for the presence of NV. Statistical analysis was performed to compare the diagnostic accuracy of the 3 wide-field imaging modalities using OCT B-scan as the reference standard. RESULTS: In 82 eyes with PDR, neovascularization of the disc (NVD) was detected in 13 eyes by UWF-CP, 35 eyes with UWF-FA, and 37 eyes with OCTA using the VRI slab. Upon review of the 2500 OCT B-scans with superimposed flow overlay of each eye, NVD was confirmed in 37 eyes. The sensitivity and specificity of NVD detection were 35.1% and 97.8%, respectively for UWF-CP; 94.6% and 100%, respectively, for UWF-FA; and 100% and 100% for WF-OCTA. One hundred ninety-six foci of neovascularization elsewhere (NVE) were identified with the OCT B-scan with superimposed flow overlay. UWF-CP analysis was able to detect 62 foci of NVE of the 196 confirmed by B-scan (31.6% detection rate). An additional 11 foci of NVE seen on UWF-CP were not confirmed by B-Scan (15% false positive rate). There were 182 foci of NVE identified by UWF-FA (detection rate 91.3%), while WF-OCTA detected 196 retinal NVEs (detection rate 100%). The rate of false positives for both UWF-FA and WF-OCTA was low (< 2%). CONCLUSION: WF-OCTA can identify NV that is not evident in UWF-CP and represents a faster and safer alternative to UWF-FA for surveillance of PDR with comparable diagnostic accuracy.
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