Structural and optical coherence tomography angiography in myopic choroidal neovascularization: Agreement with conventional fluorescein angiography

Iacono, Pierluigi; Giorno, Paola; Varano, Monica; Parravano, Mariacristina

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“…In a cohort of 36 eyes, Querques et al confirmed that OCTA was able to identify myopic MNVs in 19 out of 21 eyes, and correctly excluded 30 out of 32 eyes with pathological myopia without MNV (sensitivity was 90.48% and specificity 93.75%) [30]. However, previous studies did not evaluate the As stated by previous articles, OCTA technology has several limitations in its application to myopic eyes: the high axial length, the frequent fixation instability, and the morphologic atypical structure (i.e., staphyloma, scleral thinning) that could lead to poor quality or a non-perfectly segmented image [31,32]. This is a limitation in the application in the clinical setting of OCTA.…”

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Discerning Between Macular Hemorrhages Due to Macular Neovascularization or Due to Spontaneous Bruch’s Membrane Rupture in High Myopia: A Comparative Analysis Between OCTA and Fluorescein Angiography

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Introduction: To evaluate the sensitivity and specificity of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in comparison to fluorescein angiography (FA) in discerning between macular hemorrhages due to myopic macular neovascularization (m-MNV) and idiopathic macular hemorrhage (IMH) in patients with high myopia (HM). Methods: In this retrospective study, 14 eyes of 14 patients (mean age 60 ± 16 years) affected by macular hemorrhage due to HM were included. All patients underwent OCTA and FA at the time of macular hemorrhage (i.e., baseline) and were followed for a 3-month followup. Results: By means of FA, 8 out of 14 eyes with macular hemorrhage (57%) were diagnosed as type 2 m-MNV, whereas 6 eyes (43%) were diagnosed as IMH. Interestingly, OCTA displayed the presence of a neovascular network in all cases previously diagnosed as m-MNV using FA, and also excluded the presence of anomalous flow in all IMH eyes. This accounted for the high sensitivity and specificity of OCTA for m-MNV detection in HM cases with macular hemorrhage. After 3-month follow-up, BCVA improved from 0.39 ± 0.15 to 0.21 ± 0.14 logMAR (p = 0.006) in patients with m-MNV treated by a mean of 2.3 ± 0.9 intravitreal anti-VEGF injections. Conversely, BCVA improved without treatment (from 0.55 ± 0.48 to 0.17 ± 0.08 logMAR, p = 0.112) in patients with IMH. Conclusions: OCTA is able to differentiate with excellent reliability between the presence of m-MNV in patients with HM presenting with a new macular hemorrhage and an IMH. This could be of paramount relevance in the clinical setting for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with HM.

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Discerning Between Macular Hemorrhages Due to Macular Neovascularization or Due to Spontaneous Bruch’s Membrane Rupture in High Myopia: A Comparative Analysis Between OCTA and Fluorescein Angiography

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“…Most of articles were concerning only nAMD. Iacono et al [32] and Querques et al [33] studied high myopia and found sensibility values of 92 and 90%, respectively. But they had only few patients (13 for Iacono and 28 for Querques).…”

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OCT-Angiography for Detection of Choroidal Neovascularization: A Retrospective Real-Life Study

Bernard¹,

Messerlin²,

Sauer³

et al. 2021

Ophthalmologica

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Purpose: The purpose of the study was to assess OCT-angiography (OCT-A) contribution for choroidal neovascularization (CNV) detection, with respect to multimodal imaging (MMI) modality (including OCT, fluorescein angiography (FFA), and indocyanine green angiography [ICG]), in a real-life consultation practice. Methods: Data of all consecutive patients undergoing OCT-A examination for CNV suspicion were collected between September 2017 and September 2019 at Strasbourg University Hospital, France. Only eyes which had anti-VEGF injection in the last 3 months were excluded. All types of neovascularization were included. For all patients, data from OCT, OCT-A, FFA, and ICG were interpreted by residents and retinal specialists, independently. Final diagnosis of CNV was based on decision to treat. Sensibility, specificity, and predictive values were computed for OCT-A alone and for MMI (OCT combined to angiography). They were computed for each group. OCT-A was also assessed as “contributory” (i.e., assessing without doubt the presence or absence of CNV) or not, with respect to MMI. Results: In total, 161 eyes of 145 patients were included. MMI sensibility was better than OCT-A sensibility (93.8 vs. 65.6%). OCT-A specificity was better than MMI specificity (96.9 vs. 89.5%). OCT-A was essential for diagnosis in 16.9% of cases. Sensibility and specificity values for all exams were better when interpreted by retinal specialists than residents. OCT-A was judged “contributory” in 57.4% of eyes. OCT-A was significantly less contributory when artefacts were present (32.9% of eyes with artefacts vs. 63.5% without, p < 0.001). Conclusion: OCT-A showed to be essential in diagnosing CNV in >16% of cases. However, it often failed to conclude for the absence of CNV, which obliged to perform more exams such as angiography. OCT-A must be part of diagnostic procedure for CNV detection but does not discard angiography in everyday life practice.

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“…MedCalc Statistical Software (version 19.1.3, Ostend, Belgium) was used. 20 The primary outcome of this study was to identify the vitreo-retinal segmentation protocol that most effectively detected NV in PDR, and the secondary outcome was to investigate post-treatment NV regression on SS-OCTA.…”

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Swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography vitreo-retinal segmentation in proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Papayannis

Tsamis

Stringa

et al. 2020

European Journal of Ophthalmology

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Purpose: To identify a new cortical vitreous segmentation protocol for non invasive standardised investigation of Neovascularisation (NV) with detection of regression of NV activity in Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy (PDR). Design: Retrospective study. Participants: One hundred and eighty-six eyes of 93 consecutive diabetic patients (mean age: 52.6 ± 11.0 years) imaged using Topcon Triton® Swept-Source Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (SS-OCTA) from June 2015 to January 2017. Methods: Scans were performed through the macula, optic disc and areas of possible NV in mid-peripheral retina using 6 × 6 mm and/or 9 × 9 mm raster-patterns in three segmentation protocols: Vitreo-Retinal (VRS), Outer-Vitreous (OVS) and Core-Vitreous Segmentation (CVS). Any suspicion of PDR was confirmed in all patients by Heidelberg® Widefield-Fundus-Fluorescein-Angiography (WF-FFA) and/or Optos® Ultra-WF-FFA (UWF-FFA). Inter-observer reproducibility of NV diagnosis and agreement between SS-OCTA and UWF-FFA were assessed. Primary outcome was the identification of an effective and reproducible segmentation protocol. Secondary outcome was the identification of NV regression after treatment. Results: Sensitivity-specificity reached, respectively, the value of 100 to 100 in detecting NVD, and 96.6 to 100 in detecting NVE in compared areas. SS-OCTA was able to confirm absence of blood flow within the residual NV plexus when using VRS protocol in 30 eyes in which regression of NV with absence of leakage was documented on FFA. Conclusion: Three segmentation protocols (VRS, OVS and CVS) with different but complementary characteristics, allowed a reproducible and standardised investigation of NVD and NVE. The proposed new SS-OCTA cortical vitreous segmentation protocols may be of value when identifying and assessing NV-activity (VRS, OVS and CVS) or NV-regression (VRS) in PDR and therefore, response to therapy.

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Structural and optical coherence tomography angiography in myopic choroidal neovascularization: Agreement with conventional fluorescein angiography

Cited by 7 publications

References 24 publications

Discerning Between Macular Hemorrhages Due to Macular Neovascularization or Due to Spontaneous Bruch’s Membrane Rupture in High Myopia: A Comparative Analysis Between OCTA and Fluorescein Angiography

Discerning Between Macular Hemorrhages Due to Macular Neovascularization or Due to Spontaneous Bruch’s Membrane Rupture in High Myopia: A Comparative Analysis Between OCTA and Fluorescein Angiography

OCT-Angiography for Detection of Choroidal Neovascularization: A Retrospective Real-Life Study

Swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography vitreo-retinal segmentation in proliferative diabetic retinopathy

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