Evaluating the clinical relevance and reliability of outer retinal band length on optical coherence tomography in retinal disease: a cross-sectional study
Rene Cheung, Angelica Ly, Henrietta Wang, Michael Kalloniatis, Lisa Nivison-Smith · 2023
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Rene Cheung and co-authors checked whether the length of a bright band in the outer retina, seen on eye scans, can be measured reliably and means anything clinically. Such bands break up in many retinal diseases, but no easy, trusted scoring method existed. The team studied six hundred patients at a Sydney eye clinic.
Two graders using magnitude estimation agreed well with themselves and each other. Band length shrank with age and varied with refractive error and, in places, with eyesight quality. Glaucoma seemed linked at first pass, but the link vanished once other factors were weighed. The authors say the measure is reliable and may stand in for visual acuity, provided readings are adjusted for the factors that sway it.
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| CREATOR | Rene Cheung, Angelica Ly, Henrietta Wang, Michael Kalloniatis, Lisa Nivison-Smith |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2023 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 32 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |