KOLOA, Hawaii — Sequential macular thickness mapping can be used to detect retinal toxicity from hydroxychloroquine early and with specificity, according to a speaker here.
A fundus or clinical exam, on the other hand, is not ideal, Robin A. Vora, MD, said in a presentation at Retina 2023.
“It is not sensitive, and it will detect disease way too late,” he said.
Advantages of using sequential macular thickness plots to diagnose hydroxychloroquine toxicity are that it uses OCT data, is objective and quantitative, has fairly consistent retinal full-thickness data from test to