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Abstract
To evaluate and compare the progression of ciliopathy and non-ciliopathy autosomal recessive Retinitis Pigmentosa patients (arRP) by measuring the constriction of hyperautofluorescent rings in fundus autofluorescence (FAF) images and the progressive shortening of the ellipsoid zone line width obtained by spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).For the ciliopathy group, the estimated mean shortening of the ellipsoid zone line was 259?µm per year and the ring area decreased at a rate of 2.46?mm2 per year. For the non-ciliopathy group, the estimated mean shortening of the ellipsoid zone line was 84?µm per year and the ring area decreased at a rate of 0.7?mm2 per year.Our study was able to quantify and compare the loss of EZ line width and short-wavelength autofluorescence (SW-AF) ring constriction progression over time for ciliopathy and non-ciliopathy arRP genes. These results may serve as a basis for modeling RP disease progression, and furthermore, they could potentially be used as endpoints in clinical trials seeking to promote cone and rod survival in RP patients.
View details for DOI 10.1186/s13023-019-1163-9
View details for PubMedID 31370859