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BMJ Publishing Group, British Journal of Ophthalmology, 7(98), p. 946-950, 2014

DOI: 10.1136/bjophthalmol-2013-304082

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Macular abnormalities in Italian patients with retinitis pigmentosa

Journal article published in 2014 by Francesco Testa, Settimio Rossi, Raffaella Colucci, Beatrice Gallo, Valentina Di Iorio, Michele della Corte, M. Della Corte, Claudio Azzolini ORCID, Paolo Melillo, Francesca Simonelli
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Abstract

AIM: To investigate the prevalence of macular abnormalities in a large Caucasian cohort of patients affected by retinitis pigmentosa (RP). METHODS: A retrospective study was performed by reviewing the medical records and optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans in a cohort of 581 RP patients in order to assess the presence of macular abnormalities -that is, cystoid macular oedema (CMO), epiretinal membrane (ERM), vitreo-macular traction syndrome, and macular hole. RESULTS: Macular abnormalities were observed in 524 (45.1%) out of the 1161 examined eyes. The most frequent abnormality was CMO, observed in 237 eyes (20.4%) from 133 patients (22.9%), followed by ERM, assessed in 181 eyes (15.6%) from 115 patients (19.8%). Moreover, vitreo-retinal abnormalities were significantly (p