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. 2011 Jan;25(1):57-65.
doi: 10.1038/eye.2010.139. Epub 2010 Oct 8.

Diagnostic accuracy of nerve fibre layer, macular thickness and optic disc measurements made with the RTVue-100 optical coherence tomograph to detect glaucoma

A Garas  1 , P Vargha, G Holló
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Diagnostic accuracy of nerve fibre layer, macular thickness and optic disc measurements made with the RTVue-100 optical coherence tomograph to detect glaucoma

A Garas et al. Eye (Lond). 2011 Jan.

Abstract

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of retinal nerve fibre layer thickness (RNFLT), ganglion cell complex (GCC), and optic disc measurements made with the RTVue-100 Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (OCT) to detect glaucoma in a Caucasian referral population.

Methods: One randomly selected eye of 286 Caucasian patients (93 healthy, 36 ocular hypertensive, 46 preperimetric glaucoma, and 111 perimetric glaucoma eyes) was evaluated.

Results: Using the software-provided classification, for the total population sensitivity did not exceed 73.6% for the optic nerve head parameters, and 62.7% for the other parameters. Specificity was high (94.6-100%) for most RNFLT and GCC parameters, but low (72.0-76.3%) for the optic disc parameters. Positive predictive value varied between 98.1 and 100% for the main RNFLT parameters, 92.6 and 100% for the 16 RNFLT sectors, 92.4 and 99.0% for the GCC parameters, but did not exceed 86.3% for any of the optic disc parameters. Positive likelihood ratio (PLR) was higher than 10 for average, inferior and superior RNFLT (25.5 to infinite), 12 of the 16 RNFLT sectors (12.6 to infinite), and three of the four GCC parameters (40.0 to 48.6). No optic disc parameter had a PLR higher than 3.0.

Conclusions: RNFLT and GCC parameters of the RTVue-100 Fourier-domain OCT showed moderate sensitive but high specificity, positive predictive value and PLR for detection of glaucoma. The optic disc parameters had lower diagnostic accuracy than the RNFLT and GCC parameters.

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