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Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology 4/2014

01-04-2014 | Retinal Disorders

Inner retinal layer comparisons of eyes with exudative age-related macular degeneration and eyes with age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma

Authors: Ulfah Rimayanti, Yoshiaki Kiuchi, Ken Yamane, Miftahul Akhyar Latief, Hideki Mochizuki, Junko Hirata, Tomoyuki Akita, Junko Tanaka

Published in: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology | Issue 4/2014

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Abstract

Background

The incidence of glaucoma increases with age, as does age-related macular degeneration (AMD), with the reported incidence of glaucoma among AMD subjects being 5.4 %. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can detect glaucomatous changes in the inner retina with high sensitivity. The purpose of this study was to compare ganglion cell complex (GCC) parameters and the thickness of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) in normal eyes to that observed in eyes with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and eyes with both AMD and glaucoma.

Methods

The GCC components [GCC thickness, focal loss volume (FLV), and global loss volume (GLV)] and peripapillary RNFL thickness were measured using RTVue spectral-domain OCT (SD-OCT). The GCC and RNFL parameters of normal eyes, AMD eyes treated with different types of therapy, and AMD eyes with and without glaucoma were evaluated using nonparametric tests. Univariate and multivariate analyses were used to determine whether the GCC and RNFL parameters could be used to differentiate AMD eyes with glaucoma from those without glaucoma.

Results

Seventy-one normal eyes, 120 eyes with AMD, and 23 eyes with AMD and glaucoma were studied. The values of all GCC components were significantly different in the normal eyes from those observed in the eyes with AMD, except for the RNFL thicknesses. The GCC and RNFL parameters were not significantly different between the eyes receiving different types of therapy among the AMD groups. The RNFL thickness was significantly correlated with glaucoma diagnosis in AMD eyes.

Conclusions

These findings indicate that there is damage to the inner retinal layers in eyes with AMD. The RNFL thickness can be a useful parameter for differentiating eyes with AMD from eyes with both AMD and glaucoma.
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Metadata
Title
Inner retinal layer comparisons of eyes with exudative age-related macular degeneration and eyes with age-related macular degeneration and glaucoma
Authors
Ulfah Rimayanti
Yoshiaki Kiuchi
Ken Yamane
Miftahul Akhyar Latief
Hideki Mochizuki
Junko Hirata
Tomoyuki Akita
Junko Tanaka
Publication date
01-04-2014
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0721-832X
Electronic ISSN: 1435-702X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-013-2496-z

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