Cusumano, A;
Falsini, B;
Giardina, E;
Cascella, R;
Sebastiani, J;
Marshall, J;
(2019)
Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy – functional improvement following subthreshold nanopulse laser treatment: a case report.
Journal of Medical Case Reports
, 13
, Article 5. 10.1186/s13256-018-1935-1.
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Abstract
Background: Based on phenotypic similarities between age-related macular degeneration and the autosomal disorder Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy, we report on a single nanolaser treatment of a patient with genotype Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy confirmation and evidence of disease progression over 12 months. The case study is the first report of short-term results of subthreshold nanolaser treatment in a patient with Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy. / Case presentation: A 43-year-old Caucasian man with moderate loss of visual acuity in his left eye (20/40) and normal visual acuity in his right eye (20/20), with clinical Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy diagnosis and genetic confirmation of the common heterozygous mutation (EFEMP1) by genetic testing, underwent nanopulse subthreshold laser treatment in his left eye. A safety examination, carried out 7 days after treatment, and clinical follow-up, conducted 60 days following laser treatment, showed improvement of visual acuity from baseline by two letters and a subjective improvement of blurring. While no apparent morphological changes were found on fundoscopy, increased autofluorescence in the treated eye was observed on imaging. In addition, 2 months after nanopulse subthreshold laser treatment, rod-mediated and cone-mediated full-field electroretinography b-wave amplitudes showed an increase from baseline in both the treated eye (300%) and untreated eye (50%). At 2 months after nanopulse subthreshold laser treatment, multifocal electroretinograms showed improvement. Acuity and full-field electroretinography improvement persisted at 6-month follow-up. / Conclusions: Sustained improvements in retinal function on electroretinography persisted in both eyes 6 months after treatment, suggesting an enhancement of phototransduction and retinoid recycling induced by nanopulse subthreshold laser treatment. The functional improvement observed in the untreated eye is hypothesized to arise from an increased expression and release of metalloproteinases that circulate systemically.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy – functional improvement following subthreshold nanopulse laser treatment: a case report |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s13256-018-1935-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s13256-018-1935-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Age-related macular degeneration, Doyne honeycomb retinal dystrophy (DHRD), Subthreshold nanosecond laser treatment |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10091537 |
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