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Longitudinal changes in macular retinal layer thickness in pediatric populations: Myopic vs non-myopic eyes.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of the normal in vivo thickness of the retina, and its individual layers in pediatric populations is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal disorders, and for understanding the eye's normal development and the impact of eye growth and refractive error such as myopia (short-sightedness) upon retinal morphology. In this prospective, observational longitudinal study, total retinal thickness (and individual retinal layer thickness) and the changes in retinal morphology occurring over an 18-month period were examined in 101 children with a range of refractive errors. In childhood, the presence of myopia was associated with subtle but statistically significant (p<0.05) changes in the topographical thickness distribution of macular retinal thickness (and retinal layer thickness), characterised by a thinning of the parafoveal retina (and parafoveal or perifoveal thinning in most outer and inner retinal layers). The parafoveal retina was on average 6 ?m thinner in myopic children. However, over 18 months, longitudinal changes in retinal thickness and individual layers were of small magnitude (average changes of less than 2 ?m over 18 months), indicative of a high degree of stability in retinal morphology in healthy adolescent eyes, despite significant eye growth over this same period of time. This provides the first detailed longitudinal assessment of macula retinal layer morphology in adolescence, and delivers new normative data on expected changes in retinal structure over time and associated with myopia during this period of childhood development.

SUBMITTER: Read SA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5491256 | biostudies-other | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Longitudinal changes in macular retinal layer thickness in pediatric populations: Myopic vs non-myopic eyes.

Read Scott A SA Alonso-Caneiro David D Vincent Stephen J SJ

PloS one 20170629 6

Knowledge of the normal in vivo thickness of the retina, and its individual layers in pediatric populations is important for diagnosing and monitoring retinal disorders, and for understanding the eye's normal development and the impact of eye growth and refractive error such as myopia (short-sightedness) upon retinal morphology. In this prospective, observational longitudinal study, total retinal thickness (and individual retinal layer thickness) and the changes in retinal morphology occurring o ...[more]

PMID: 28662138

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Project description:PurposeFor OCT retinal thickness measurements to be used as a prodromal age-related macular degeneration (AMD) risk marker, the 3-dimensional (3D) topographic variation of the relationship between genetic susceptibility to AMD and retinal thickness needs to be assessed. We aimed to evaluate individual retinal layer thickness changes and topography at the macula that are associated with AMD genetic susceptibility.DesignGenetic association study.ParticipantsA total of 1579 healthy participants (782 Chinese, 353 Malays, and 444 Indians) from the multiethnic Singapore Epidemiology of Eye Diseases study were included.MethodsSpectral-domain OCT and automatic segmentation of individual retinal layers were performed to produce 10 retinal layer thickness measurements at each ETDRS subfield, producing 3D topographic information. Age-related macular degeneration genetic susceptibility was represented via single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and aggregated via whole genome (overall) and pathway-specific age-related macular degeneration polygenic risk score (PRSAMD).Main outcome measuresAssociations of individual SNPs, overall PRSAMD, and pathway-specific PRSAMD with retinal thickness were analyzed by individual retinal layer and ETDRS subfield.ResultsCFH rs10922109, ARMS2-HTRA1 rs3750846, and LIPC rs2043085 were the top AMD susceptibility SNPs associated with retinal thickness of individual layers (P < 1.67 × 10-3), all at the central subfield. The overall PRSAMD was most associated with thinner L9 (outer segment photoreceptor/retinal pigment epithelium complex) thickness at the central subfield (β = -0.63 μm; P = 5.45 × 10-9). Pathway-specific PRSAMD for the complement cascade (β = -0.53 μm; P = 9.42 × 10-7) and lipoprotein metabolism (β = -0.05 μm; P = 0.0061) were associated with thinner photoreceptor layers (L9 and L7 [photoreceptor inner/outer segments], respectively) at the central subfield. The mean PRSAMD score was larger among Indians compared with that of the Chinese and had the thinnest thickness at the L9 central subfield (β = -1.00 μm; P = 2.91 × 10-7; R2 = 5.5%). Associations at other retinal layers and ETDRS regions were more heterogeneous.ConclusionsOverall genetic susceptibility to AMD and the aggregate effects of the complement cascade and lipoprotein metabolism pathway are associated most significantly with L7 and L9 photoreceptor thinning at the central macula in healthy individuals. Photoreceptor thinning has potential to be a prodromal AMD risk marker, and topographic variation should be considered.Financial disclosuresProprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.

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Longitudinal changes in macular retinal layer thickness in pediatric populations: Myopic vs non-myopic eyes.

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Longitudinal changes in macular retinal layer thickness in pediatric populations: Myopic vs non-myopic eyes.

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