Capillary density and caliber as assessed by optical coherence tomography angiography may be significant predictors of diabetic retinopathy severity

Sam Kushner-Lenhoff, Kaitlin Kogachi, Melissa Mert, Zhongdi Chu, Anoush Shahidzadeh, Neal V Palejwala, Jeremy Wolfe, Sujit Itty, Kimberly A Drenser, Antonio Capone, Pravin U Dugel, Andrew A Moshfeghi, Hossein Ameri, Lauren P Daskivich, Ruikang K Wang and Amir H Kashani

PLOS ONE, 2022, vol. 17, issue 1, 1-12

Abstract: Purpose: To validate retinal capillary density and caliber associations with diabetic retinopathy (DR) severity in different clinical settings. Methods: This cross-sectional study assessed retinal capillary density and caliber in the superficial retinal layer of 3-mm OCTA scans centered on the fovea. Images were collected from non-diabetic controls and subjects with mild or referable DR (defined DR worse than mild DR) between February 2016 and December 2019 at secondary and tertiary eye care centers. Vessel Skeleton Density (VSD), a measure of capillary density, and Vessel Diameter Index (VDI), a measure of vascular caliber, were calculated from these images. Discriminatory performance of VSD and VDI was evaluated using multivariable logistic regression models predicting DR severity with adjustments for sex, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Area under the curve (AUC) was estimated. Model performance was evaluated in two different cohorts. Results: This study included 594 eyes from 385 subjects. Cohort 1 was a training cohort of 509 eyes including 159 control, 155 mild non-proliferative DR (NPDR) and 195 referable DR eyes. Cohort 2 was a validation cohort consisting of 85 eyes including 16 mild NPDR and 69 referable DR eyes. In Cohort 1, addition of VSD and VDI to a model using only demographic data significantly improved the model’s AUC for discrimination of eyes with any DR severity from controls (0.91 [95% CI, 0.88–0.93] versus 0.80 [95% CI, 0.76–0.83], p

Date: 2022
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