
Retinal nerve fiber layer as measured by optical coherence tomography may act as a surrogate measure for neuroaxonal loss in patients with multiple sclerosis.
“There is a strong association between measures of retinal neuroaxonal loss and brain atrophy over 24 months,” Heba Altarawneh, MD, said during a presentation at the Women in Ophthalmology Summer Symposium. “This highlights and underpins the viability of [optical coherence tomography] OCT as a surrogate measure of neuroaxonal loss in [multiple sclerosis] MS,” Altarawneh said.
Altarawneh and colleagues measured