Lower baseline retinal thickness in patients with MS correlates with long-term disability

Decreased ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer thickness at baseline as assessed by optical coherence tomography correlated with a four-fold greater risk for long-term disability worsening in MS, according to findings published in Neurology.
“Our interest in using retinal optical coherence tomography [OCT] started in 2006 through a collaboration with Laura Balcer, MD, a neuro-ophthalmologist at NYU Langone, and Ellliot M. Frohman, MD, PhD, FAAN, neurologist at UT Southwestern Medical Center, in which we wished to have a better indicator for whether inflammation was causing brain tissue damage,”