Changes in retinal multilayer thickness and vascular network of patients with Alzheimer's disease.
Background: Retinal biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been extensively investigated in recent decades. Retinal nervous and vascular parameters can reflect brain conditions, and they can facilitate early diagnosis of AD.Objective: Our study aimed to evaluate the difference in retinal neuro-...
| Publicado en: | BioMedical Engineering OnLine Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 1 - 14 |
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BioMed Central
10/3/2021
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=152764736&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 152764736 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 1475925X 1CGX jtl: BioMedical Engineering OnLine issn: 1475925X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 10/3/2021 vid: 20 iid: 1 pid: 24147 pub: BioMed Central artinfo: ui: 152764736 152764736 NLM34602087 10.1186/s12938-021-00931-2 NLM34602087 152764736 ppf: 1 ppct: 13 formats: tig: atl: Changes in retinal multilayer thickness and vascular network of patients with Alzheimer's disease. aug: au: Mei, Xi Qiu, Conglong Zhou, Qi Chen, Zhongming Chen, Yang Xu, Zemin Zou, Chenjun affil: Kangning Hospital of Ningbo, Ningbo Kangning Hospital, Zhuangyu South Road 1#, Ningbo, Zhejiang, China sug: subj: Alzheimer's Disease Tomography, Optical Coherence Child Male Retina Child: 6-12 years Male ab: Background: Retinal biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been extensively investigated in recent decades. Retinal nervous and vascular parameters can reflect brain conditions, and they can facilitate early diagnosis of AD.Objective: Our study aimed to evaluate the difference in retinal neuro-layer thickness and vascular parameters of patients with AD and healthy controls (HCs).Methods: Non-invasive optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) was used to determine the combined thickness of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) and ganglion cell layer (GCL), as well as the full retinal thickness (FRT). The vascular branching (VB), vascular curvature (VC), and vascular density (VD) for AD and HC groups were also obtained. The Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) was used to evaluate the cognitive performance of all the participants. After obtaining all the parameters, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the mean values of all the retinal parameters of the patients with AD and the HCs. Pearson's correlation was used to test the association between retinal parameters, MMSE scores, and vascular parameters.Results: Seventy-eight eyes from 39 participants (19 AD and 20 HC; male, 52.6% in AD and 45.0% in HC; mean [standard deviation] age of 73.79 [7.22] years in AD and 74.35 [6.07] years in HC) were included for the analysis. The average RNFL + GCL thickness (106.32 ± 7.34 μm), FRTs of the four quadrants (290.35 ± 13.05 μm of inferior quadrant, 294.68 ± 9.37 μm of superior quadrant, 302.97 ± 6.52 μm of nasal quadrant, 286.02 ± 13.74 μm of temporal quadrant), and retinal VD (0.0148 ± 0.003) of patients with AD, compared with the HCs, were significantly reduced (p < 0.05). Retinal thickness was significantly correlated with the MMSE scores (p < 0.05). Meanwhile, retinal VD was significantly correlated with the average RNFL + GCL thickness (r2 = 0.2146, p < 0.01). When the vascular parameters were considered, the sensitivity of the AD diagnosis was increased from 0.874 to 0.892.Conclusion: Our study suggested that the patients with AD, compared with age-matched HCs, had significantly reduced RNFL + GCL thickness and vascular density. These reductions correlated with the cognitive performance of the participants. By combining nerve and vessel parameters, the diagnosis of AD can be improved using OCTA technology. Trail registration Name of the registry: Chinese Clinical Trail Registry, Trial registration number: ChiCTR2000035243, Date of registration: Aug. 5, 2020. URL of trial registry record: http://www.chictr.org.cn/index.aspx. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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