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  • Title: Hyperautofluorescent material inside areas of macular atrophy may reveal non-lipofuscin fluorophores in late stage AMD.
    Author: Tarhan M, Meller D, Hammer M.
    Journal: Acta Ophthalmol; 2024 Aug 23; ():. PubMed ID: 39177106.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To characterize fundus autofluorescence (FAF) in complete (cRORA) and incomplete retinal pigment epithelium and outer retinal atrophy (iRORA) by fluorescence lifetime imaging ophthalmology (FLIO). METHODS: Overall, 98 macular atrophy (MA) lesions in 42 eyes of 37 age-related macular degeneration (AMD) patients (mean age: 80.9 ± 5.8 years), 25 of them classified as iRORA and 73 as cRORA by OCT, were investigated by FLIO in a short (SSC: 498-560 nm) and a long wavelength channel (LSC: 560-720 nm). Differences of FAF lifetimes and peak emission wavelength (PEW) between atrophic lesions and intact retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) in the outer ring of the ETDRS grid were considered. RESULTS: FAF lifetimes in MA were longer and PEW were significantly (p < 0.001) shorter than in intact RPE by 112 ± 78 ps (SSC), 91 ± 64 ps (LSC), 27 ± 18 nm (PEW) in iRORA and by 227 ± 112 ps (SSC), 167 ± 81 ps (LSC), and 54 ± 17 nm (PEW) in cRORA. 37% of iRORA and 24% of cRORA were hyperautofluorescent in SSC. Persistent sub-RPE-BL material in MA was newly found as a hyperautofluorescent entity with lifetimes considerably longer than that of drusen and RPE. CONCLUSIONS: Despite RPE and, thus, lipofuscin are greatly absent in MA, considerable FAF, preferably at short wavelengths, was found in those lesions. Drusen, persistent sub-RPE-BL material, basal laminar deposits, persistent activated RPE, and sclera were identified as putative sources of this fluorescence. FLIO can help to characterize respective fluorophores.
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