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INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE
Volume 54, Issue 12, Pages 7498-7509Publisher
ASSOC RESEARCH VISION OPHTHALMOLOGY INC
DOI: 10.1167/iovs.13-12433
Keywords
age-related macular degeneration; adaptive optics; cones; scanning laser ophthalmoscopy
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Funding
- Alan Laties Career Development Award, Foundation Fighting Blindness
- National Institutes of Health [EY002162, EY014375]
- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
- Foundation Fighting Blindness
- Research to Prevent Blindness
- Beckman Initiative for Macular Research
- Bright-Focus Foundation
- Bernard A. Newcomb Macular Degeneration Fund
- That Man May See, Inc.
- Hope for Vision
- University of California at San Francisco Research Allocation Program Novel Clinical/Translational Methods Award
- George and Rosalie Hearst Foundation
- Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research [EY014375]
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PURPOSE. To evaluate cone spacing using adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) in eyes with nonneovascular AMD, and to correlate progression of AOSLO-derived cone measures with standard measures of macular structure. METHODS. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images were obtained over 12 to 21 months from seven patients with AMD including four eyes with geographic atrophy (GA) and four eyes with drusen. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images were overlaid with color, infrared, and autofluorescence fundus photographs and spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) images to allow direct correlation of cone parameters with macular structure. Cone spacing was measured for each visit in selected regions including areas over drusen (n = 29), at GA margins (n = 14), and regions without drusen or GA (n = 13) and compared with normal, age-similar values. RESULTS. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy imaging revealed continuous cone mosaics up to the GA edge and overlying drusen, although reduced cone reflectivity often resulted in hyporeflective AOSLO signals at these locations. Baseline cone spacing measures were normal in 13/13 unaffected regions, 26/28 drusen regions, and 12/14 GA margin regions. Although standard clinical measures showed progression of GA in all study eyes, cone spacing remained within normal ranges in most drusen regions and all GA margin regions. CONCLUSIONS. Adaptive optics scanning laser ophthalmoscopy provides adequate resolution for quantitative measurement of cone spacing at the margin of GA and over drusen in eyes with AMD. Although cone spacing was often normal at baseline and remained normal over time, these regions showed focal areas of decreased cone reflectivity. These findings may provide insight into the pathophysiology of AMD progression. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00254605.)
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