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ArticleJournal of personalized medicine2021

Specific Autoantibodies in Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Evaluation of Morphological and Functional Progression over Five Years.

Michelle Prasuhn, Caroline Hillers, Felix Rommel, Gabriela Riemekasten, Harald Heidecke, Khaled Nassar, Mahdy Ranjbar, Salvatore Grisanti, Aysegül Tura

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Article in Journal of personalized medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy.Journal of personalized medicine · 2022
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michelle PrasuhnDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7304-2963
Caroline HillersDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Felix RommelDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2584-0607
Gabriela RiemekastenClinic of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Harald HeideckeCellTrend GmbH, 14943 Luckenwalde, Germany.
Khaled NassarDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Mahdy RanjbarDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Salvatore GrisantiDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
Aysegül TuraDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, University of Lübeck, 23562 Lübeck, Germany.
University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein · DEInstitute of Pathology Celle · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

(1) Background: Altered levels of autoantibodies (aab) and their networks have been identified as biomarkers for various diseases. Neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) is a leading cause for central vision loss worldwide with highly variable inter- and intraindividual disease courses. Certain aab networks could help in daily routine to identify patients with a high disease activity who need to be visited and treated more regularly. (2) Methods: We analyzed levels of aab against Angiotensin II receptor type 1 (AT1-receptor), Protease-activated receptors (PAR1), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) -A, VEGF-B, and VEGF-receptor 2 in sera of 164 nAMD patients. In a follow-up period of five years, we evaluated changes in functional and morphological characteristics. Using correlation analyses, multiple regression models, and receiver operator characteristics, we assessed whether the five aab have a clinical significance as biomarkers that correspond to the clinical properties. (3) Results: Neither the analyzed aab individually nor taken together as a network showed statistically significant results that would allow us to draw conclusions on the clinical five-year course in nAMD patients. (4) Conclusions: The five aab that we analyzed do not correspond to the clinical five-year course of nAMD patients. However, larger, prospective studies should reevaluate different and more aab to gain deeper insights.

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age-related macular degenerationAT1-receptorautoantibodiesbiomarkersPAR1VEGF-AVEGF-BVEGF-receptor 2

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