Optical coherence tomography indices for diagnosis of chronic glaucoma in patients with diabetes mellitus: a pilot study

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ORIGINAL PAPER

Optical coherence tomography indices for diagnosis of chronic glaucoma in patients with diabetes mellitus: a pilot study Fatma K. Hassan . Karim Adly Raafat Riham S. H. M. Allam

. Khaled E. Elrakhawy

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Received: 29 May 2020 / Accepted: 4 September 2020 Ă“ Springer Nature B.V. 2020

Abstract Purpose To evaluate optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters in patients with concomitant type-2 diabetes mellitus (DM) and primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) compared with patients with either of these diseases. Methods Sixty eyes (52 patients) were divided into three groups. The first group included nonglaucomatous diabetic patients, the second included patients with POAG without DM, and the third included patients with both POAG and DM. Spectral domain OCT evaluation of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL), ganglion cell complex (GCC), and optic disc parameters was performed. Visual field (VF) was measured for structural and functional correlation. Results Significant differences were found in average RNFL, inferior RNFL, average GCC, inferior GCC, rim area, focal loss volume (FLV%), and global

Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-020-01590-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. F. K. Hassan Department of Ophthalmology, Students’ Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

loss volume (GLV%) (P = 0.014, 0.001, 0.027, 0.006, 0.009, 0.043, and 0.001, respectively). The concomitant presence of DM and glaucoma was a risk factor for decreased average RNFL, inferior RNFL, rim area, and inferior GCC, and for increased GLV% (P = 0.034, 0.002, 0.014, 0.015, and 0.003, respectively). The inferior RNFL thickness had the largest significant area under the curve (P = 0.726; 90% sensitivity) at a specificity greater than 80% with a cutoff value of 105.38 lm (P = 0.005) compared with average RNFL, inferior GCC, rim area, and GLV% (P = 0.073, 0.25, 0.23, and 0.1, respectively). VF demonstrated the predominance of nasal scotomata in the diabetic group and arcuate scotoma in the glaucoma group (P \ 0.001 and 0.03, respectively). Conclusions OCT could be a valuable tool for the detection and follow-up of POAG in diabetic patients. The inferior RNFL thickness could be a sensitive and a specific predictor for glaucoma diagnosis and progression in diabetic patients without retinopathy. Keywords Diabetes mellitus  Ganglion cell complex  Primary open angle glaucoma  Retinal nerve fiber layer  Spectral domain optical coherence tomography

K. A. Raafat  K. E. Elrakhawy  R. S. H. M. Allam (&) Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Giza, Cairo, Egypt e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Introduction

Patients and methods

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a prevalent chronic disease with sight threatening complications. It is a leading cause of blindness in many countries [1]. Loss of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL)