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ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2022

OCT Analysis of Retinal Pigment Epithelium in Myopic Choroidal Neovascularization: Correlation Analysis with Different Treatments.

Davide Allegrini, Diego Vezzola, Alfredo Borgia, Raffaele Raimondi, Tania Sorrentino, Domenico Tripepi, Elisa Stradiotto, Marco Alì, Giovanni Montesano, Mario R Romano

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Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Davide AllegriniEye Clinic, Humanitas Gavazzeni-Castelli Hospital, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 11, 24128 Bergamo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-5988-706X
Diego VezzolaEye Clinic, Humanitas Gavazzeni-Castelli Hospital, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 11, 24128 Bergamo, Italy.
Alfredo BorgiaEye Clinic, Humanitas Gavazzeni-Castelli Hospital, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 11, 24128 Bergamo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3976-242X
Raffaele RaimondiEye Clinic, Humanitas Gavazzeni-Castelli Hospital, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 11, 24128 Bergamo, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8472-7984
Tania SorrentinoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Manzoni 113, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Domenico TripepiDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Manzoni 113, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Elisa StradiottoDepartment of Biomedical Sciences, Humanitas University, Via Manzoni 113, 20089 Rozzano, Italy.
Marco AlìUnit of Diagnostic Imaging and Stereotactic Radiosurgery, Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Via Saint Bon 20, 20147 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-8156-7743
Giovanni MontesanoOptometry and Visual Sciences, University of London, London EC1 0HB, UK.
Mario R RomanoEye Clinic, Humanitas Gavazzeni-Castelli Hospital, Via Giuseppe Mazzini 11, 24128 Bergamo, Italy.
Humanitas University · ITHumanitas Castelli · ITCentro Diagnostico Italiano · ITUniversity of London · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objective: The objective of this study was to analyze the status of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) by means of the spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) overlying the myopic neovascular lesions in the involutive phase, looking for any correlations between the status of the RPE and the size of the lesions and the type and duration of the treatment. Methods: SD-OCT examinations of 83 consecutive patients with myopic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) were reviewed and divided into two groups: group A, patients with CNV characterized by uniformity of the overlying RPE, and group B, patients with CNV characterized by non-uniformity of the overlying RPE. Results: The median lesion area, major diameter, and minimum diameter were, respectively, 0.42 mm2 (0.30−1.01 mm2), 0.76 mm2 (0.54−1.28 mm2), and 0.47 mm2 (0.63−0.77 mm2) in group A, and 1.60 mm2 (0.72−2.67 mm2), 1.76 mm2 (1.13−2.23 mm2), and 0.98 mm2 (0.65−1.33 mm2) in group B. These values were lower in group A than in group B (p < 0.001). The number of treatments with a period free of disease recurrence for at least 6 months was greater (p < 0.010) in group B (6.54 ± 2.82) than in group A (3.67 ± 2.08), and treatments include intravitreal anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injection, photodynamic therapy, or both. Conclusions: Our results showed that the size of myopic neovascular lesion influences the development of a uniform RPE above the lesion and therefore the disease prognosis. The presence of uniform RPE was found to be extremely important in the follow-up of patients with myopic CNV, as it influences the duration of the disease and the number of treatments required.

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CNVmedical retinamyopiamyopic choroidal neovascularizationOCT

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