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Trial reportThe British journal of ophthalmology2016

Assessment of estimated retinal atrophy progression in Stargardt macular dystrophy using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Rupert W Strauss, Beatriz Muñoz, Yulia Wolfson, Raafay Sophie, Emily Fletcher, Millena G Bittencourt, Hendrik P N Scholl

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In one paragraph

Trial report in The British journal of ophthalmology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers.

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30citing papers in PubMed
4.0field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 46 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. ABCA4-associated disease in childhood and adolescence- a phenotype study.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2025
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  5. Artificial intelligence in retinal disease: clinical application, challenges, and future directions.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2023
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  8. Structural evaluation in inherited retinal diseases.The British journal of ophthalmology · 2021
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  9. Stargardt disease: Multimodal imaging: A review.Clinical & experimental ophthalmology · 2021
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  10. Measurement of macular thickness with optical coherence tomography: impact of using a paediatric reference database and analysis of interocular symmetry.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2021
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  19. Impact of segmentation density on spectral domain optical coherence tomography assessment in Stargardt disease.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Rupert W StraussThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Beatriz MuñozThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Yulia WolfsonThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Raafay SophieThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Emily FletcherThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Millena G BittencourtThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Hendrik P N SchollThe Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USWomen's General Hospital · AT

Funding

Baylor-Johns Hopkins Center for Mendelian GeneticsU54HG006542 · NHGRI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI VALLE, DAVID · 2012 to 2015
$15.6M
NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG006542
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

aimsTo estimate disease progression based on analysis of macular volume measured by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) in patients affected by Stargardt macular dystrophy (STGD1) and to evaluate the influence of software errors on these measurements.

methods58 eyes of 29 STGD1 patients were included. Numbers and types of algorithm errors were recorded and manually corrected. In a subgroup of 36 eyes of 18 patients with at least two examinations over time, total macular volume (TMV) and volumes of all nine Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) subfields were obtained. Random effects models were used to estimate the rate of change per year for the population, and empirical Bayes slopes were used to estimate yearly decline in TMV for individual eyes.

results6958 single B-scans from 190 macular cube scans were analysed. 2360 (33.9%) showed algorithm errors. Mean observation period for follow-up data was 15 months (range 3-40). The median (IQR) change in TMV using the empirical Bayes estimates for the individual eyes was -0.103 (-0.145, -0.059) mm

conclusionsSD-OCT measurements allow monitoring the decline in retinal volume in STGD1; however, they require significant manual correction of software errors.

Indexed as

Visual AcuityAdolescentAdultAgedChildDisease ProgressionFemaleHumansMacula LuteaMacular DegenerationMaleMiddle AgedReproducibility of ResultsRetrospective StudiesStargardt DiseaseTomography, Optical CoherenceDystrophyImagingMaculaRetina

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PMID26568636
PMCPMC4941136
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