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ArticleClinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.)2013

Correlation between peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness and fundus autofluorescence in primary open-angle glaucoma.

Lukas Reznicek, Florian Seidensticker, Thomas Mann, Irene Hübert, Alexandra Buerger, Christos Haritoglou, Aljoscha S Neubauer, Anselm Kampik, Christoph Hirneiss, Marcus Kernt

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Article in Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Imaging of the peripheral retina.Oman journal of ophthalmology · 2013
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lukas ReznicekDepartment of Ophthalmology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany.
Florian Seidensticker
Thomas Mann
Irene Hübert
Alexandra Buerger
Christos Haritoglou
Aljoscha S Neubauer
Anselm Kampik
Christoph Hirneiss
Marcus Kernt
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo investigate the relationship between retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and retinal pigment epithelium alterations in patients with advanced glaucomatous visual field defects.

methodsA consecutive, prospective series of 82 study eyes with primary open-angle glaucoma and advanced glaucomatous visual field defects were included in this study. All study participants underwent a full ophthalmic examination followed by visual field testing with standard automated perimetry as well as spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) for peripapillary RNFL thickness and Optos wide-field fundus autofluorescence (FAF) images. A pattern grid with corresponding locations between functional visual field sectors and structural peripapillary RNFL thickness was aligned to the FAF images at corresponding location. Mean FAF intensity (range: 0 = black and 255 = white) of each evaluated sector (superotemporal, temporal, inferotemporal, inferonasal, nasal, superonasal) was correlated with the corresponding peripapillary RNFL thickness obtained with SD-OCT.

resultsCorrelation analyses between sectoral RNFL thickness and standardized FAF intensity in the corresponding topographic retina segments revealed partly significant correlations with correlation coefficients ranging between 0.004 and 0.376 and were statistically significant in the temporal inferior central field (r = 0.324, P = 0.036) and the nasal field (r = 0.376, P = 0.014).

conclusionRetinal pigment epithelium abnormalities correlate with corresponding peripapillary RNFL damage, especially in the temporal inferior sector of patients with advanced glaucomatous visual field defects. A further evaluation of FAF as a potential predictive parameter for glaucomatous damage is necessary.

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FAFfundus autofluorescenceglaucomaimagingOCToptical coherence tomographyretinal nerve fiber layerRNFL

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PMID24092967
PMCPMC3788816
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