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Prognostic value of intermediate age-related macular degeneration phenotypes for geographic atrophy progression.
- Source :
- British Journal of Ophthalmology; Feb2021, Vol. 105 Issue 2, p239-245, 7p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Background: To characterise early stages of geographic atrophy (GA) development in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and to determine the prognostic value of structural precursor lesions in eyes with intermediate (i) AMD on the subsequent GA progression. Methods: Structural precursor lesions for atrophic areas (lesion size at least 0.5 mm² in fundus autofluorescence images) were retrospectively identified based on multimodal imaging and evaluated for association with the subsequent GA enlargement rates (square-root transformed, sqrt). A linear mixed-effects model was used to account for the hierarchical nature of the data with a Tukey post hoc test to assess the impact of the local precursor on the subsequent GA progression rate. Results: A total of 39 eyes with GA of 34 patients with a mean age of 74.4±6.7 (±SD) years were included in this study. Five precursor lesions (phenotypes 1-5) preceding GA development were identified: large, sub-retinal pigment epithelial drusen (n=19), reticular pseudodrusen (RPD, n=10), refractile deposits (n=4), pigment epithelial detachment (n=4) and vitelliform lesions (n=2). Precursor lesions exhibited a significant association with the subsequent (sqrt) GA progression rates (p=0.0018) with RPD (phenotype 2) being associated with the fastest GA enlargement (2.29±0.52 (±SE) mm/year. Conclusions: The results indicate the prognostic relevance of iAMD phenotyping for subsequent GA progression highlighting the role of structural AMD features across different AMD stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071161
- Volume :
- 105
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Ophthalmology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 148294797
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bjophthalmol-2020-316004