Functional and structural findings of neurodegeneration in early stages of diabetic retinopathy:cross-sectional analyses of baseline data of the EUROCONDOR project

Abstract

Cross-sectional study evaluating the relationship between: a) functional and structural measurements of neurodegeneration in initial stages of diabetic retinopathy (DR); and b) presence of neurodegeneration and early microvascular impairment. We analyzed baseline data of patients with type 2 diabetes (n=449) enrolled in the EUROCONDOR study (NCT01726075). Functional studies by multifocal ERG (mfERG) evaluated neurodysfunction and structural measurements using spectral domain optical-coherence tomography (SD-OCT) evaluated neurodegeneration. The mfERG P1 amplitude was more sensitive than the P1 implicit time (IT), and was lower in patients with ETDRS 20-35 than in patients with ETDRS <20 (p=0.005). In 58% of cases, mfERG abnormalities were present in the absence of visible retinopathy. Correspondence between SD-OCT thinning and mfERG abnormalities was shown in 67% of the eyes with ETDRS <20 and in 83% of the eyes with ETDRS 20-35. Notably, 32% of patients with ETDRS 20-35 presented no abnormalities in mfERG or SD-OCT. We conclude that there is a link between mfERG and SD-OCT measurements which increases with the presence of microvascular impairment. However, in our particular study population (ETDRS ≤ 35) a significant proportion of patients had normal GC-IPL thickness and normal mfERG findings. We raise the hypothesis that neurodegeneration may play a role in the pathogenesis of DR in many, but not in all type 2 diabetic patients.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.2337/db16-1453
Divisions: College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Optometry & Vision Science Research Group (OVSRG)
College of Health & Life Sciences
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Vision, Hearing and Language
College of Health & Life Sciences > School of Optometry > Optometry
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Uncontrolled Keywords: Internal Medicine,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Publication ISSN: 1939-327X
Last Modified: 25 Mar 2024 08:22
Date Deposited: 11 Sep 2017 09:00
Full Text Link: http://livrepos ... /eprint/3010828
Related URLs: http://www.scop ... tnerID=8YFLogxK (Scopus URL)
http://diabetes ... ntent/66/9/2503 (Publisher URL)
PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-09
Published Online Date: 2017-06-29
Accepted Date: 2017-06-19
Authors: Santos, Ana Rita
Ribeiro, Luísa
Bandello, Francesco
Lattanzio, Rosangela
Egan, Catherine
Frydkjaer-Olsen, Ulrik
García-Arumí, José
Gibson, Jonathan (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-9281-5244)
Grauslund, Jakob
Harding, Simon P.
Lang, Gabriele E.
Massin, Pascale
Midena, Edoardo
Scanlon, Peter
Aldington, Stephen J.
Simão, Sílvia
Schwartz, Christian
Ponsati, Berta
Porta, Massimo
Costa, Miguel Ângelo
Hernández, Cristina
Cunha-Vaz, José
Simó, Rafael
, European Consortium for the Early Treatment of Diabetic Retinopa

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