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Curr Eye Res ; 49(6): 650-662, 2024 06.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-38407181

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PURPOSE: To characterize any differences in the vasculature and cone photoreceptor packing geometry (CPG) between subjects with diabetes without/no diabetic retinopathy (NDR) and healthy controls. METHODS: Eight NDR and five controls were enrolled. Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) taken at the macula was used to measure vessel density, vessel length density, and vessel density index (VDI) in three vascular plexuses, namely, the superficial vascular plexus, intermediate capillary plexus, and deep capillary plexus (DCP). The choriocapillaris (CC) flow deficit (FD) was also measured. OCTA images were binarized and processed to extrapolate the parafovea and parafoveal quadrants and the OCTA indices mentioned above. The CC was processed with six different radii to quantify FD. Adaptive optics - scanning laser ophthalmoscopy images were acquired and processed to extract CPG indices, i.e., cone density (CD), cone-to-cone spacing (CS), linear dispersion index, heterogeneity packing index and percent of cells with six neighbors at 3.6° in the temporal retina. RESULTS: In all eyes, statistically significant differences were found (i) in parafoveal FD across the six radii (p < 0.001) and (ii) in the correlation between the parafoveal temporal quadrant (PTQ) DCP VDI and CS (r = 0.606, p = 0.048). No other significant correlations were found. For OCTA or CPG indices, no significant differences were found between the cohorts in the parafovea or parafoveal quadrants. CONCLUSIONS: CS is the most sensitive CPG index for detecting alterations in the cone mosaic. The DCP and the cone photoreceptors are significantly correlated, indicating that alterations in the DCP can affect the cones. Future work elucidating the vascular alterations and neurodegeneration present in diabetic eyes should focus on the DCP and multiple CPG indices, not solely CD. Moreover, such alterations are highly localized, hence using larger regions e.g. parafovea versus smaller areas, such as the PTQ, will potentially mask significant correlations.


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Retinopatia Diabética , Angiofluoresceinografia , Células Fotorreceptoras Retinianas Cones , Vasos Retinianos , Tomografia de Coerência Óptica , Humanos , Tomografia de Coerência Óptica/métodos , Células Fotorreceptoras Retinianas Cones/patologia , Masculino , Feminino , Vasos Retinianos/diagnóstico por imagem , Vasos Retinianos/patologia , Vasos Retinianos/fisiopatologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Retinopatia Diabética/fisiopatologia , Retinopatia Diabética/diagnóstico , Angiofluoresceinografia/métodos , Oftalmoscopia , Idoso , Fundo de Olho , Adulto , Acuidade Visual/fisiologia , Macula Lutea/patologia
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