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  • Title: Scanning laser polarimetry quantification of retinal nerve fiber layer thinning following optic neuritis.
    Author: Trip SA, Schlottmann PG, Jones SJ, Kallis C, Altmann DR, Garway-Heath DF, Thompson AJ, Plant GT, Miller DH.
    Journal: J Neuroophthalmol; 2010 Sep; 30(3):235-42. PubMed ID: 20531017.
    Abstract:
    BACKGROUND: Several studies with optical coherence tomography (OCT) have demonstrated thinning of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in patients with optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis. Similar studies have not been performed with scanning laser polarimetry (SLP), which relies on different physical phenomena. This study was designed to use SLP to measure axonal loss following a single episode of optic neuritis and to determine if there is a relationship between the degree of axonal loss and the degree of residual visual dysfunction. METHODS: Twenty-five patients with a single episode of optic neuritis and 15 control subjects were studied with SLP using the GDxVCC device to determine RNFL thickness in relation to visual acuity, visual fields, color vision, visual evoked potentials (VEPs), and previously published OCT data. RESULTS: SLP detected significant RNFL thinning in affected eyes compared to clinically unaffected fellow eyes in patients and in control eyes (P < 0.001). Reduced RNFL thickness was associated with significantly worse logMAR visual acuity, visual field mean deviation, and color vision. RNFL thinning correlated with reduced whole visual field and central visual field measures and VEP amplitudes. Superior and inferior quadrant RNFL thinning was related to corresponding regional visual field loss. There was a scaling factor between SLP and OCT RNFL measurements but only modest agreement. CONCLUSIONS: SLP detected functionally relevant axonal loss in eyes affected by optic neuritis. There was a scaling factor between RNFL measurements obtained with SLP and OCT but only modest agreement. Care should therefore be taken when comparing RNFL data from studies using these different devices.
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