OCT offers standardized way to assess fibrosis in wet AMD

Key takeaways:

OCT is emerging as a more sensitive test to identify fibrosis.

The next step will be to include an en face image with either color photography or fluorescein angiography.

PARIS — An international group of retina specialists recently reached consensus on a two-step process for the identification of fibrosis in neovascular age-related macular degeneration .

“In the past, before we had a good treatment with anti-VEGFs, fibrosis was very obvious. On color photos, diagnosing a pale, elevated lesion in the macula was relatively easy. But with the good anti-VEGF treatments that we have now, fibrosis tends to be more subtle, thinner and appearance on color photos may not be so obvious,” Gemmy Cheung, MD , PhD , of Singapore National Eye Centre, told Healio at the Euretin