Retinal axonal loss in very early stages of multiple sclerosis

A. H. Maghzi; J. Graves; N. Revirajan; R. Spain; S. Liu; C. E. Mcculloch; D. Pelletier; A. J. Green; E. Waubant

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Retinal axonal loss in very early stages of multiple sclerosis

A. H. Maghzi, J. Graves, N. Revirajan, R. Spain, S. Liu, C. E. Mcculloch, D. Pelletier, A. J. Green, E. Waubant

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Background and purpose: The lack of surrogates of clinical progression has limited the design of neuroprotection trials in multiple sclerosis (MS). Our aim was to study the association between time-domain optical coherence tomography measures and clinical and magnetic resonance imaging outcomes in early MS. Methods: Forty-three relapsing-remitting MS patients within 1 year of onset were followed for up to 3 years. Results: The peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) decreased annually by 2 μm (95% confidence interval -3.89, -0.11; P = 0.038). The RNFL tended to be associated with normalized normal appearing white matter volume in cross-sectional (P = 0.08) and longitudinal analyses (P = 0.06). Conclusions: There is substantial RNFL loss even in very early MS. Our data suggest that retinal axonal atrophy is associated with atrophy in global white matter volume in early MS.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	1138-1141
Number of pages	4
Journal	European Journal of Neurology
Volume	22
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/ene.12722
State	Published - Jul 1 2015

Keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging
Multiple sclerosis
Neuroprotection
Optical coherence tomography

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Neurology
Clinical Neurology

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