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ArticleOphthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists)2025

The relationship between ON-OFF function and OCT structural and angiographic parameters in early diabetic retinal disease.

Vanessa T S Tang, Robert C A Symons, Spiros Fourlanos, Daryl Guest, Allison M McKendrick

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Article in Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  1. Diabetic retinal vessel segmentation algorithm based on MA-DUNet.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025
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  3. The relationship between ON-OFF function and OCT structural and angiographic parameters in early diabetic retinal disease.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2025
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Vanessa T S TangDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9656-1392
Robert C A SymonsDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-8104-881X
Spiros FourlanosDepartment Diabetes and Endocrinology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5153-8324
Daryl GuestDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1770-6547
Allison M McKendrickDepartment of Optometry and Vision Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-1972-1222

Funding

Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThis study measured associations between ON and OFF functional indicators and structural optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT angiography (OCTA) markers in diabetic retinal disease.

methodsFifty-four participants with type 1 or type 2 diabetes (mean age = 34.1 years; range 18-60) and 48 age-matched controls (mean age = 35.4 years, range 18-59) underwent visual psychophysical testing, OCT and OCTA retinal imaging. Psychophysical tasks measuring (A) contrast increment and decrement sensitivity and (B) response times to increment and decrement targets were assessed as surrogate measures of ON and OFF retinal ganglion cell function.

resultsThe group with diabetes had worse foveal contrast increment and decrement thresholds (p = 0.04) and were slower to search for increment and decrement targets relative to controls (p = 0.009). Individuals with diabetes had a less circular foveal avascular zone (FAZ) (p < 0.001) but did not differ from controls in foveal vessel density and FAZ area. Functional and structural outcome measures related to the peripheral retina were also comparable between those with and without diabetes. Functional responses to increments and decrements were not significantly correlated with FAZ circularity or vessel density in individuals with diabetes.

conclusionsDiabetic retinal disease results in impaired performance on measures of inferred ON and OFF pathway function in addition to vascular deficits measurable with OCTA. Future longitudinal studies may determine the temporal relationship between these deficits, and whether they predict future diabetic retinopathy.

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Diabetic RetinopathyFluorescein AngiographyRetinal Ganglion CellsTomography, Optical CoherenceAdolescentAdultContrast SensitivityDiabetes Mellitus, Type 2FemaleFundus OculiHumansMaleMiddle AgedRetinal VesselsVisual AcuityYoung Adultdiabetic retinopathyoptical coherence tomographyoptical coherence tomography angiographypsychophysics

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PMID39400905
PMCPMC11629852

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