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RETINA-THE JOURNAL OF RETINAL AND VITREOUS DISEASES
Volume 42, Issue 4, Pages 760-766Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000003361
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optical coherence tomography; predictors; diabetic macular edema; intravitreal bevacizumab
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This study found that patients with diabetic nephropathy had greater subfoveal choroidal thickness at baseline and were more likely to have subretinal fluid. External limiting membrane disruption and disorganization of retinal inner layers were predictors of best-corrected visual acuity at 3 months, while disorganization of retinal inner layers and duration of diabetes mellitus were predictors of central subfield thickness at 3 months.
Purpose: To assess spectral domain optical coherence tomography biomarkers of short-term outcomes in eyes with diabetic macular edema treated with intravitreal bevacizumab. Methods: In a prospective interventional case series, 66 eyes with diabetic macular edema underwent 3 monthly intravitreal bevacizumab injections. Best-corrected visual acuity measurement and spectral domain optical coherence tomography were performed at baseline and at 3 months. Multivariate regression analysis was performed to investigate the baseline spectral domain optical coherence tomography parameters as predictors of functional and anatomical outcomes. Results: Patients with diabetic nephropathy had greater subfoveal choroidal thickness (300.8 +/- 35.54 vs. 253.0 +/- 50.07 mu m, P < 0.01) and were more likely to have subretinal fluid (r = 0.26, P = 0.03) at baseline. Multivariate analysis showed that the extent of external limiting membrane disruption (P = 0.03) and the extent of disorganization of retinal inner layers (P = 0.03) at baseline were predictors of best-corrected visual acuity at 3 months, whereas the extent of disorganization of retinal inner layers (P = 0.04) and duration of diabetes mellitus (P = 0.03) were predictors of central subfield thickness at 3 months. Conclusion: External limiting membrane disruption and disorganization of retinal inner layers, as the spectral domain optical coherence tomography biomarkers of retinal hyperpermeability, can predict short-term outcomes in diabetic macular edema eyes treated with intravitreal bevacizumab.
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