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Trial reportPloS one2014

Multimodal retinal vessel analysis in CADASIL patients.

Florian Alten, Jeremias Motte, Carina Ewering, Nani Osada, Christoph R Clemens, Ella M Kadas, Nicole Eter, Friedemann Paul, Martin Marziniak

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Trial report in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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24citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. [Optical coherence tomography angiography in neuronal diseases : Preliminary findings].Der Ophthalmologe : Zeitschrift der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft · 2019
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Florian AltenDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Jeremias MotteDepartment of Neurology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Carina EweringDepartment of Neurology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Nani OsadaDepartment of Medical Informatics and Biomathematics, University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
Christoph R ClemensDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Ella M KadasDepartment of Neurology, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, German.
Nicole EterDepartment of Ophthalmology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Friedemann PaulDepartment of Neurology, Charite University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, German; NeuroCure Clinical Research Center, Berlin, Germany.
Martin MarziniakDepartment of Neurology, University of Muenster Medical Center, Muenster, Germany.
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin · DEUniversity of Münster · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo further elucidate retinal findings and retinal vessel changes in Cerebral autosomal dominant arteriopathy with subcortical infarcts and leukoencephalopathy (CADASIL) patients by means of high resolution retinal imaging.

methods28 eyes of fourteen CADASIL patients and an equal number of control subjects underwent confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (cSLO), spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) measurements, fluorescein and indocyanine angiography. Three vessel measurement techniques were applied: RNFL thickness, a semiautomatic software tool based on cSLO images and manual vessel outlining based on SD-OCT.

resultsMean age of patients was 56.2 ± 11.6 years. Arteriovenous nicking was present in 22 (78.6%) eyes and venous dilation in 24 (85.7%) eyes. Retinal volume and choroidal volume were 8.77 ± 0.46 mm(3) and 8.83 ± 2.24 mm(3). RNFL measurements showed a global increase of 105.2 µm ( CONTROL GROUP: 98.4 µm; p = 0.015). Based on semi-automatic cSLO measurements, maximum diameters of arteries and veins were 102.5 µm (106.0 µm; p = 0.21) and 128.6 µm (124.4 µm; p = 0.27) respectively. Manual SD-OCT measurements revealed significantly increased mean arterial 138.7 µm (125.4 µm; p<0.001) and venous 160.0 µm (146.9; p = 0.003) outer diameters as well as mean arterial 27.4 µm (19.2 µm; p<0.001) and venous 18.3 µm (15.7 µm; p<0.001) wall thicknesses in CADASIL patients.

conclusionsThe findings reflect current knowledge on pathophysiologic changes in vessel morphology in CADASIL patients. SD-OCT may serve as a complementary tool to diagnose and follow-up patients suffering from cerebral small-vessel diseases.

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AngiographyTomography, Optical CoherenceAgedCADASILHumansMiddle AgedRetinal Vessels

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