Martin Michl1, Xuhui Liu1,2, Alexandra Kaider3, Amir Sadeghipour1, Bianca S Gerendas1, Ursula Schmidt-Erfurth1. 1. Department of Ophthalmology, Vienna Reading Center and OPTIMA Study Group, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. 2. Department of Ophthalmology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou City, China. 3. Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Abstract
PURPOSE: We aimed to determine the correlation between optical coherence tomography (OCT)- and demographic features and baseline best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in treatment-naïve patients with retinal vein occlusion (RVO). METHODS: This was a cross-sectional posthoc analysis of OCT images that included RVO patients from two prospective, open-label, multicentre studies. The morphological grading was done manually, in the standardized setting of a reading centre. Main outcome measure was the estimated difference in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study letters associated with each individual biomarker. RESULTS: Included were 381/301 treatment-naïve patients with BRVO/CRVO. For BRVO, statistically significant correlations with BCVA were seen for a 100 µm increase in central subfield thickness (CST; -3.1 letters), intraretinal cysts at centre point (CP; +4.1), subretinal fluid (SRF) at CP (+3.0) and hyperreflective foci (HRF) at the central B-scan (-2.2). In CRVO, a 100 µm increase in CST was associated with a loss of -3.4 letters. In the total cohort, 100 µm increase in CST, SRF at CP and HRF at the central B-scan correlated with a difference of -3.2,+3.2 and -2.0 letters. A 10-year increase in age and female gender yielded a -2.0 and -2.5 letter decrease in the total cohort. Adjusted multiple R2 for the respective group was 18.3%/26.3%/23.5%. CONCLUSIONS: Of all parameters studied, only CST and age were consistently associated with worse BCVA in treatment-naïve RVO patients. Morphology on OCT explained only a modest part of functional loss in this patient cohort.
PURPOSE: We aimed to determine the correlation between optical coherence tomography (OCT)- and demographic features and baseline best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in treatment-naïve patients with retinal vein occlusion (RVO). METHODS: This was a cross-sectional posthoc analysis of OCT images that included RVO patients from two prospective, open-label, multicentre studies. The morphological grading was done manually, in the standardized setting of a reading centre. Main outcome measure was the estimated difference in Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study letters associated with each individual biomarker. RESULTS: Included were 381/301 treatment-naïve patients with BRVO/CRVO. For BRVO, statistically significant correlations with BCVA were seen for a 100 µm increase in central subfield thickness (CST; -3.1 letters), intraretinal cysts at centre point (CP; +4.1), subretinal fluid (SRF) at CP (+3.0) and hyperreflective foci (HRF) at the central B-scan (-2.2). In CRVO, a 100 µm increase in CST was associated with a loss of -3.4 letters. In the total cohort, 100 µm increase in CST, SRF at CP and HRF at the central B-scan correlated with a difference of -3.2,+3.2 and -2.0 letters. A 10-year increase in age and female gender yielded a -2.0 and -2.5 letter decrease in the total cohort. Adjusted multiple R2 for the respective group was 18.3%/26.3%/23.5%. CONCLUSIONS: Of all parameters studied, only CST and age were consistently associated with worse BCVA in treatment-naïve RVO patients. Morphology on OCT explained only a modest part of functional loss in this patient cohort.