The Evolution of Fibrosis and Atrophy and Their Relationship with Visual Outcomes in Asian Persons with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration

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PURPOSE: To describe the rate of development and progression of fibrosis and macular atrophy (MA) and their relationship with 1-year visual outcomes in Asian participants with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD).

DESIGN: Review of images collected from a prospectively recruited observational cohort.

PARTICIPANTS: Participants with treatment-naïve nAMD.

METHODS: All participants underwent multimodality imaging at baseline and month 12 and were treated according to standard of care. Retinal specialists evaluated color fundus photographs fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography images to determine the subtypes according polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) and non-PCV subtypes. An independent reading center graded qualitative and quantitative morphologic features on spectral-domain OCT. Fibrosis and MA were determined based on multimodal imaging.

MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Incidence of fibrosis and MA and their impact on visual outcome at 1 year.

RESULTS: We included 93 eyes (48.4% PCV). Between baseline and month 12, visual acuity (VA) improved from 0.81±0.56 logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR; Snellen equivalent, approximately 20/126) to 0.71±0.61 logMAR (Snellen equivalent, approximately 20/100; P = 0.007), and mean retinal thickness decreased from 471.1 μm to 343.4 μm (P < 0.001). Between baseline and month 12, prevalence of fibrosis and MA increased from 13.0% to 37.8% (P < 0.001) and 9.7% to 17.2% (P = 0.008), respectively. Worse baseline VA and presence of subretinal hyperreflective material (SHRM) at month 12 were associated with worse VA at month 12 after adjusting for multiple factors, whereas PCV subtype was associated with better VA at month 12. At month 12, the predominant composition of SHRM was fibrosis (82.5%).

CONCLUSIONS: We describe significant development of fibrosis and MA in Asian nAMD eyes and show that fibrosis is the most important predictor of outcomes. These results highlight the need for therapy beyond anti-vascular endothelial growth factor inhibition to address fibrosis in Asian nAMD.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:3

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Ophthalmology. Retina - 3(2019), 12 vom: 20. Dez., Seite 1045-1055

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cheung, Chui Ming Gemmy [VerfasserIn]
Grewal, Dilraj S [VerfasserIn]
Teo, Kelvin Yi Chong [VerfasserIn]
Gan, Alfred [VerfasserIn]
Mohla, Aditi [VerfasserIn]
Chakravarthy, Usha [VerfasserIn]
Wong, Tien Yin [VerfasserIn]
Jaffe, Glenn J [VerfasserIn]

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2S9ZZM9Q9V
Angiogenesis Inhibitors
Bevacizumab
Journal Article
Observational Study
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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Date Completed 14.10.2020

Date Revised 14.10.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.oret.2019.06.002

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NLM300538650