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Assessment of Retinal Vessel Tortuosity Index in Patients with Fabry Disease Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA)

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العنوان: Assessment of Retinal Vessel Tortuosity Index in Patients with Fabry Disease Using Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography (OCTA)
المؤلفون: Kevin Hangartner, Anahita Bajka, Maximilian R. J. Wiest, Sophia Sidhu, Mario D. Toro, Peter M. Maloca, Sandrine A. Zweifel
المصدر: Diagnostics; Volume 13; Issue 15; Pages: 2496
بيانات النشر: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: MDPI Open Access Publishing
مصطلحات موضوعية: retinal vessel tortuosity, vessel tortuosity index, retinal imaging, optical coherence tomography angiography, Fabry disease, lysosomal storage disorder, alpha galactosidase deficiency
الوصف: Vessel tortuosity (VT) is a parameter used to assess retinal involvement in patients affected by systemic diseases such as Fabry disease (FD). In this study, we assessed a retinal VT index (VTI) using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in a group of patients with FD (FD cohort) compared to a healthy control group (HC cohort). This is a single-center, retrospective study analysis of all consecutive patients with genetically tested and confirmed FD who underwent regular ophthalmological visits from December 2017 to January 2020 at the Department of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. VTI was calculated for each OCTA image and the results were compared between FD and HC cohort. A total of 56 participants, 32 (male:female ratio 12:20) in the FD cohort and 24 (male:female ratio 13:11) in the HC cohort. Classic onset was determined in 18 patients. Overall, mean VTI (±SD) was 0.21 (±0.07). Male patients with classic-onset FD had a significantly higher mean VTI (0.33, SD ± 0.35) compared to all other subgroups (p-value < 0.05). Further investigations of retinal VTI in patients with FD could be helpful to use OCTA as a noninvasive screening and follow-up modality to assess disease progression in affected patients.
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اللغة: English
Relation: Optical Diagnostics; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13152496
DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics13152496
الاتاحة: https://doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13152496
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
رقم الانضمام: edsbas.A7AEEDFE
قاعدة البيانات: BASE
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DOI:10.3390/diagnostics13152496