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Prevalence of subretinal drusenoid deposits in older persons with and without age-related macular degeneration, by multimodal imaging
- Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Purpose To assess the prevalence of subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD) in older adults with healthy maculas and early and intermediate age-related macular degeneration (AMD) using multimodal imaging. Design Cross-sectional study. Participants A total of 651 subjects aged ≥60 years enrolled in the Alabama Study of Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration from primary care ophthalmology clinics. Methods Subjects were imaged using spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD OCT) of the macula and optic nerve head (ONH), infrared reflectance, fundus autofluorescence, and color fundus photographs (CFP). Eyes were assessed for AMD presence and severity using the Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS) 9-step scale. Criteria for SDD presence were identification on ≥1 en face modality plus SD OCT or on ≥2 en face modalities if absent on SD OCT. Subretinal drusenoid deposits were considered present at the person level if present in 1 or both eyes. Main Outcome Measures Prevalence of SDD in participants with and without AMD. Results Overall prevalence of SDD was 32% (197/611), with 62% (122/197) affected in both eyes. Persons with SDD were older than those without SDD (70.6 vs. 68.7 years, P = 0.0002). Prevalence of SDD was 23% in subjects without AMD and 52% in subjects with AMD ( P Conclusions Subretinal drusenoid deposits are present in approximately one quarter of older adults with healthy maculae and in more than half of persons with early to intermediate AMD, even by stringent criteria. The prevalence of SDD is strongly associated with AMD presence and severity and increases with age, and its retinal topography including peripapillary involvement resembles that of rod photoreceptors. Consensus on SDD detection methods is recommended to advance our knowledge of this lesion and its clinical and biologic significance.
- Subjects :
- musculoskeletal diseases
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
genetic structures
Cross-sectional study
Eye disease
Fundus (eye)
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Ophthalmology
medicine
Prospective cohort study
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
Age-Related Eye Disease Study
Macular degeneration
Fluorescein angiography
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Surgery
030104 developmental biology
030221 ophthalmology & optometry
Optic nerve
sense organs
business
Subjects
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a6284db3db9d0fb16196dcf368cfcbf6