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- The study aimed to assess outer retinal bands using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) to create a new imaging biomarker that can distinguish between ABCA4- and PRPH2-associated retinopathy.
- A multicenter case-control design involved 45 patients each with ABCA4 or PRPH2 variants, and a control group to evaluate the thickness of specific retinal bands.
- Results showed significant differences in band thickness and the band 2/band 4 ratio between the two patient groups and achieved high diagnostic capability, suggesting that this measure could be useful for future clinical applications.
Article Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate the outer retinal bands using OCT in ABCA4- and PRPH2-associated retinopathy and develop a novel imaging biomarker to differentiate between these 2 genotypes.
Design: Multicenter case-control study.
Participants: Patients with a clinical and genetic diagnosis of ABCA4- or PRPH2-associated retinopathy and an age-matched control group.
Methods: Macular OCT was used to measure the thickness of the outer retinal bands 2 and 4 by 2 independent examiners at 4 retinal loci.
Main Outcome Measures: Outcome measures included the thicknesses of band 2, band 4, and the band 2/band 4 ratio. Linear mixed modeling was used to make comparisons across the 3 groups. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis determined the optimal cutoff for the band 2/band 4 ratio to distinguish PRPH2- from ABCA4-associated retinopathy.
Results: We included 45 patients with ABCA4 variants, 45 patients with PRPH2 variants, and 45 healthy controls. Band 2 was significantly thicker in patients with PRPH2 compared with ABCA4 (21.4 vs. 15.9 μm, P < 0.001) variants, whereas band 4 was thicker in patients with ABCA4 variants than those with PRPH2 variants (27.5 vs. 21.7 μm, P < 0.001). Similarly, the band 2/band 4 ratio was significantly different (1.0 vs. 0.6 for PRPH2 vs. ABCA4, P < 0.001). The area under the ROC curve was 0.87 for either band 2 (> 18.58 μm) or band 4 (< 26.17 μm) alone and 0.99 (95% confidence interval: 0.97-0.99) for the band 2/band 4 ratio with a cutoff threshold of 0.79, providing 100% specificity.
Conclusions: We report an altered outer retinal band profile whereby the band 2/band 4 ratio was able to discriminate between PRPH2- and ABCA4-associated retinopathy. This may have future clinic utility in predicting the genotype and provide further insight into the anatomic correlate of band 2.
Financial Disclosure(s): Proprietary or commercial disclosure may be found in the Footnotes and Disclosures at the end of this article.
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