Frederike Cosima Oertel, Hanna G Zimmermann, Seyedamirhosein Motamedi, Claudia Chien, Orhan Aktas, Philipp Albrecht, Marius Ringelstein, Anitha Dcunha, Lekha Pandit, Elena H Martinez-Lapiscina, Bernardo Sanchez-Dalmau, Pablo Villoslada, Jacqueline Palace, Adriana Roca-Fernández, Maria Isabel Leite, Srilakshmi M Sharma, Letizia Leocani, Marco Pisa, Marta Radaelli, Marco Aurélio Lana-Peixoto, Mariana Andrade Fontenelle, Joachim Havla, Fereshteh Ashtari, Rahele Kafieh, Alireza Dehghani, Mohsen Pourazizi, Romain Marignier, Alvaro Cobo-Calvo, Nasrin Asgari, Anu Jacob, Saif Huda, Yang Mao-Draayer, Ari J Green, Rachel Kenney, Michael R Yeaman, Terry J Smith, Lawrence Cook, Alexander U Brandt, Friedemann Paul, Axel Petzold
BACKGROUND: The novel optic neuritis (ON) diagnostic criteria include intereye differences (IED) of optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters. IED has proven valuable for ON diagnosis in multiple sclerosis but has not been evaluated in aquaporin-4 antibody seropositive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (AQP4+NMOSD). We evaluated the diagnostic accuracy of intereye absolute (IEAD) and percentage difference (IEPD) in AQP4+NMOSD after unilateral ON >6 months before OCT as compared with healthy controls (HC)...
February 21, 2023: Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry