TY - JOUR
T1 - Deliberations of an International Panel of Experts on OCT Angiography Nomenclature of Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration
AU - Mendonça, Luísa S M
AU - Perrott-Reynolds, Rhianon
AU - Schwartz, Roy
AU - Madi, Haifa A
AU - Cronbach, Nicola
AU - Gendelman, Isaac
AU - Muldrew, Alyson
AU - Bannon, Finnian
AU - Balaskas, Konstantinos
AU - Gemmy Cheung, Chui Ming
AU - Fawzi, Amani
AU - Ferrara, Daniela
AU - Freund, K Bailey
AU - Fujimoto, James
AU - Munk, Marion R
AU - Querques, Giuseppe
AU - Ribeiro, Ramiro
AU - Rosenfeld, Philip J
AU - Sadda, SriniVas R
AU - Sahni, Jayashree
AU - Sarraf, David
AU - Spaide, Richard F
AU - Schmidt-Erfurth, Ursula
AU - Souied, Eric
AU - Staurenghi, Giovanni
AU - Tadayoni, Ramin
AU - Wang, Ruikang K
AU - Chakravarthy, Usha
AU - Waheed, Nadia K
PY - 2021/7/1
Y1 - 2021/7/1
N2 - OCT angiography (OCTA) has been used to identify and characterize macular neovascularization (MNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).1, 2, 3, 4 Many studies have explored OCTA morphologic features of MNV that might serve as biomarkers to assess disease activity and response to treatment.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 However, the proliferation of studies has resulted in OCTA terminology that has been variable and inconsistent. To address the inconsistency of nomenclature and to allow harmonization, a multidisciplinary panel of retinal imaging experts with a history of relevant research contributions to the field was assembled with the purpose to review published terminology and to recommend a reduced list of key terms pertinent to OCTA. The group was called UNICORN, because of its ultimate goal of generating a UNIfied COmmentary of the committee of inteRnational experts on the nomenclature for Neovascular AMD in OCTA. In this report, we describe the first steps of this process, which included a review of OCTA descriptors of neovascular AMD published to date and an exercise that tested agreement of these terms among retinal imaging experts.
AB - OCT angiography (OCTA) has been used to identify and characterize macular neovascularization (MNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration (AMD).1, 2, 3, 4 Many studies have explored OCTA morphologic features of MNV that might serve as biomarkers to assess disease activity and response to treatment.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 However, the proliferation of studies has resulted in OCTA terminology that has been variable and inconsistent. To address the inconsistency of nomenclature and to allow harmonization, a multidisciplinary panel of retinal imaging experts with a history of relevant research contributions to the field was assembled with the purpose to review published terminology and to recommend a reduced list of key terms pertinent to OCTA. The group was called UNICORN, because of its ultimate goal of generating a UNIfied COmmentary of the committee of inteRnational experts on the nomenclature for Neovascular AMD in OCTA. In this report, we describe the first steps of this process, which included a review of OCTA descriptors of neovascular AMD published to date and an exercise that tested agreement of these terms among retinal imaging experts.
KW - Expert Testimony/methods
KW - Fluorescein Angiography/methods
KW - Fundus Oculi
KW - Humans
KW - Macula Lutea/pathology
KW - Terminology as Topic
KW - Tomography, Optical Coherence/methods
KW - Wet Macular Degeneration/diagnosis
U2 - 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.12.022
DO - 10.1016/j.ophtha.2020.12.022
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33359557
SN - 0161-6420
VL - 128
SP - 1109
EP - 1112
JO - Ophthalmology
JF - Ophthalmology
IS - 7
ER -