Effects of Myopia on Rates of Change in Optical Coherence Tomography Measured Retinal Layer Thicknesses in People with Multiple Sclerosis and Healthy Controls.
Grigorios KalaitzidisNicole PellegriniNatalia NagyEleni VasileiouHenrik EhrhardtAbbey ReppenOlwen C MurphyHussein MoussaAngeliki FilippatouJeffrey LambeAnna DuValNicholas FioravanteOhemaa KwakyiJames NguyenSimidele DavisMorgan DouglasAlexandra RamirezKatie EcoffAlyssandra ValenzuelaMaria Reyes-MantillaChen HuKathryn C FitzgeraldElias S SotirchosShiv SaidhaPeter A CalabresiPublished in: Current eye research (2022)
Cross-sectional differences in average GCIPL and pRNFL thicknesses are commonly seen in people with HM as compared to reference normative values from people with NM and can lead to false attribution of pathology if RE is not taken into account. However, our study suggests that longitudinal changes in average GCIPL thickness in PwMS with myopia are similar in magnitude to PwMS with NM, and therefore are appropriate for monitoring disease-related pathology.