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Observational studyScientific reports2021

Evaluation of retinal pigment epithelium changes in serous pigment epithelial detachment in age-related macular degeneration.

Masahiro Miura, Shuichi Makita, Yoshiaki Yasuno, Takuya Iwasaki, Shinnosuke Azuma, Toshihiro Mino, Tatsuo Yamaguchi

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Observational study in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Short-term changes in retinal pigment epithelium after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy for neovascular age-related macular degeneration evaluated by polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography.Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie · 2026
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Masahiro MiuraDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, 3-20-1 Chuo, Ami, Inashiki, Ibaraki, 300395, Japan. m-miura@tokyo-med.ac.jp.
Shuichi MakitaComputational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Yoshiaki YasunoComputational Optics Group, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan.
Takuya IwasakiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical University, Ibaraki Medical Center, 3-20-1 Chuo, Ami, Inashiki, Ibaraki, 300395, Japan.
Shinnosuke AzumaTopcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Toshihiro MinoTopcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Tatsuo YamaguchiTopcon Corporation, Tokyo, Japan.
Topcon (Japan) · JPTokyo Medical University Ibaraki Medical Center · JPUniversity of Tsukuba · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to quantitatively evaluate retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) changes in serous pigment epithelial detachment (PED) among patients with age-related macular degeneration by means of prototype multi-contrast optical coherence tomography (OCT), which is capable of simultaneous collection of OCT angiography, polarization-sensitive OCT, and standard OCT images. We evaluated 26 eyes of 21 patients with serous PED. RPE-melanin OCT images were calculated from the multi-contrast OCT dataset and compared with near-infrared autofluorescence images. An active RPE lesion was defined as an area of thickened RPE-melanin (≥ 70 μm; RPE

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Tomography, Optical CoherenceAgedAged, 80 and overCross-Sectional StudiesFeasibility StudiesFemaleFluorescein AngiographyHumansMacular DegenerationMaleMiddle AgedProspective StudiesRetinal DetachmentRetinal Pigment Epithelium

Identifiers

PMID33531591
PMCPMC7854605
OpenAlexW3127782458

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