Pearls and Pitfalls of Adaptive Optics Ophthalmoscopy in Inherited Retinal Diseases.

ABSTRACT: Adaptive optics (AO) retinal imaging enables individual photoreceptors to be visualized in the clinical setting. AO imaging can be a powerful clinical tool for detecting photoreceptor degeneration at a cellular level that might be overlooked through conventional structural assessments, such as spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). Therefore, AO imaging has gained significant interest in the study of photoreceptor degeneration, one of the most common causes of inherited blindness. Growing evidence supports that AO imaging may be useful for diagnosing early-stage retinal dystrophy before it becomes apparent on fundus examination or conventional retinal imaging. In addition, serial AO imaging may detect structural disease progression in early-stage disease over a shorter peri

SUBMITTER: Ashourizadeh H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10377978 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature