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- Title
Anatomical and functional features of photic retinopathy: a spectral domain optical coherence tomography–based longitudinal study.
- Authors
Kumar, Karthik; Sen, Sagnik; Anudeep, Kannegolla; Rajan, Renu P.; Kannan, Naresh Babu; Ramasamy, Kim
- Abstract
Background: Photic retinopathy may lead to permanent foveal structural injury, leading to irreversible visual acuity loss. Method: This prospective observational study evaluated 51 eyes of 30 patients with photic retinopathy. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging was performed for all the eyes at baseline and final follow-up. All the eyes showed a focal outer retinal defect on spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT) at the junction of the inner and outer photoreceptor segments. SD-OCT was used to measure central macular thickness, maximum horizontal dimension of the defect, maximum defect thickness, and the photic retinopathy index (PRI) through the foveal raster scan. Results: Although PRI improved significantly at the final follow-up from baseline with a 17% improvement in PRI after a period of 6 months in photic retinopathy eyes, visual acuity declined for 14% of the patients and was stable for 84%. There was mild correlation of visual acuity with baseline PRI. Baseline PRI was significantly higher in eyes with poorer presenting visual acuity (VA). In total, 33.3% of the eyes showed partial ellipsoid zone recovery at 6 months. The area under curve of the receiver operator characteristic curve for partial ellipsoid zone recovery with the mean baseline PRI as the independent variable was poor at 0.612. Conclusion: OCT-based ultrastructural features in photic retinopathy seem to have poor correlation with presenting or final visual acuity. To the best of our knowledge, this is the largest study on longitudinal OCT evaluation of photic retinopathy eyes in literature.
- Subjects
EYE; OPTICAL coherence tomography; VISUAL acuity; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Graefe's Archive of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology, 2022, Vol 260, Issue 2, p415
- ISSN
0721-832X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00417-021-05228-7