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EPMA JOURNAL
Volume 9, Issue 1, Pages 21-33Publisher
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG
DOI: 10.1007/s13167-017-0123-5
Keywords
Neuromyelitis optica; Tomography optical coherence; Diagnosis differential; Optic neuritis; Retina; Disease progression; Vision disorders
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Neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD) are mostly relapsing inflammatory disorders of the central nervous system (CNS). Optic neuritis (ON) is the first NMOSD-related clinical event in 55% of the patients, which causes damage to the optic nerve and leads to visual impairment. Retinal optical coherence tomography (OCT) has emerged as a promising method for diagnosis of NMOSD and potential individual monitoring of disease course and severity. OCT not only detects damage to the afferent visual system caused by ON but potentially also NMOSD-specific intraretinal pathology, i.e. astrocytopathy. This article summarizes retinal involvement in NMOSD and reviews OCT methods that could be used now and in the future, for differential diagnosis, for monitoring of disease course, and in clinical trials.
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