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ArticleRetina (Philadelphia, Pa.)2015

RETICULAR PSEUDODRUSEN ON INFRARED IMAGING ARE TOPOGRAPHICALLY DISTINCT FROM SUBRETINAL DRUSENOID DEPOSITS ON EN FACE OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY.

Michael J Heiferman, Joshua K Fernandes, Marion Munk, Rukhsana G Mirza, Lee M Jampol, Amani A Fawzi

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Article in Retina (Philadelphia, Pa.), 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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6 authors.

Michael J Heiferman*Department of Ophthalmology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois; and †Department of Ophthalmology, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
Joshua K Fernandes
Marion Munk
Rukhsana G Mirza
Lee M Jampol
Amani A Fawzi

Funding

Hyperspectral Imaging of the Normal and Age-related Macular Degeneration FundusR01EY021470 · NEI · NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE · PI FAWZI, AMANI A, SMITH, ROLAND THEODORE · 2011 to 2014
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NEI NIH HHS R01 EY021470NEI NIH HHS R01EY021470
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeTo evaluate the quantitative and topographic relationship between reticular pseudodrusen (RPD) on infrared reflectance (IR) and subretinal drusenoid deposits (SDD) on en face volumetric spectral domain optical coherence tomography.

methodsReticular pseudodrusen were marked on IR images by a masked observer. Subretinal drusenoid deposits were visualized on en face sections of spectral domain optical coherence tomography below the external limiting membrane and identified by a semiautomated technique. Control RPD lesions were generated in a random distribution for each IR image. Binary maps of control and experimental RPD and SDD were merged and analyzed in terms of topographic localization and quantitative drusen load comparison.

resultsA total of 54 eyes of 41 patients diagnosed with RPD were included in this study. The average number of RPD lesions on IR images was 320 ± 44.62 compared with 127 ± 26.02 SDD lesions on en face (P < 0.001). The majority of RPD lesions did not overlap with SDD lesions and were located >30 μm away (92%). The percentage of total SDD lesions overlapping RPD was 2.91 ± 0.87% compared with 1.73 ± 0.68% overlapping control RPD lesions (P < 0.05). The percentage of total SDD lesions between 1 and 3 pixels of the nearest RPD lesion was 5.08 ± 1.40% compared with 3.33 ± 1.07% between 1 and 3 pixels of the nearest control RPD lesion (P < 0.05).

conclusionThis study identified significantly more RPD lesions on IR compared with SDD lesions on en face spectral domain optical coherence tomography and found that a large majority of SDD (>90% of lesions) were >30 μm away from the nearest RPD. Together, our findings indicate that RPD and SDD are two entities that are only occasionally topographically associated, suggesting that at some stage in their development, they may be pathologically related.

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Diagnostic Techniques, OphthalmologicalAdultAgedChoroidFemaleHumansMaleRetinal DrusenRetrospective StudiesTomography, Optical Coherence

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