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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2020

Multimodal Imaging in the Management of Choroidal Neovascularization Secondary to Central Serous Chorioretinopathy.

Ahmed M Hagag, Shruti Chandra, Hagar Khalid, Ali Lamin, Pearse A Keane, Andrew J Lotery, Sobha Sivaprasad

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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9citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 20% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Classification.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Ahmed M HagagMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3372-7885
Shruti ChandraMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.
Hagar KhalidMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.
Ali LaminMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.
Pearse A KeaneMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9239-745X
Andrew J LoteryFaculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5541-4305
Sobha SivaprasadMoorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London EC1V 2PD, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8952-0659
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · GBUniversity of Southampton · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_PC_16004Medical Research Council MC_PC_19005Wellcome Trust 210572/Z/18/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The diagnosis and treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in eyes with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) can be challenging. The purpose of this study was to classify eyes with suspected CNV using multimodal imaging. The effect of intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was assessed and compared to controls. This retrospective study included chronic CSCR patients with suspected secondary CNV who received intravitreal bevacizumab. Eyes were divided into "definite CNV" and "no CNV" based on optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Eyes that did not undergo OCTA imaging were considered as "presumed CNV". One-year outcome in visual acuity (VA) and central foveal thickness (CFT) were investigated and compared to non-treated control patients to assess the response to anti-VEGF. Logistic regression analysis was used to explore predictive biomarkers of CNV detection and improvement after anti-VEGF. Ninety-two eyes with chronic CSCR from 88 participants were included in this study. Sixty-one eyes received bevacizumab and 31 eyes were non-treated control subjects. The presence of subretinal hyperreflective material (SHRM) and shallow irregular retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) elevation (SIRE) with sub-RPE hyperreflectivity on OCT was associated with a significantly increased risk of detecting CNV on OCTA. Intravitreal anti-VEGF caused significant functional and anatomical improvement in patients with neovascular CSCR as compared to non-treated eyes. In contrast, VA and CFT changes were not significantly different between treated and non-treated CSCR with no evidence of CNV on OCTA. No clinical or anatomical biomarkers were found to be associated with response to treatment. In conclusion, OCTA should be used to confirm the presence CNV in suspected chronic CSCR patients. Intravitreal anti-VEGF treatment resulted in a significantly better one-year outcome in patients with definitive OCTA evidence of CNV.

Indexed as

anti-VEGFbevacizumabcentral serous chorioretinopathychoroidal neovascularizationoptical coherence tomography angiographypresumed CNVsuspected CNV

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PMID32575806
PMCPMC7355588
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