Serum glial fibrillary acidic protein correlates with retinal structural damage in aquaporin-4 antibody positive neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder.
Mult Scler Relat Disord
; 67: 104100, 2022 Nov.
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BACKGROUND: Aquaporin-4 immunoglobulin-G positive (AQP4-IgG+) neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder (NMOSD) is an autoimmune astrocytopathy associated with optic neuritis (ON). Myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein antibody-associated disease (MOGAD) is an oligodendrocytopathy with a similar phenotype. Serum glial fibrillary acidic protein (sGFAP), an astrocyte-derived protein, is associated with disease severity in AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD. Serum neurofilament light (sNfL) indicates neuroaxonal damage. The objective was to investigate the association of sGFAP and sNfL with subclinical afferent visual system damage in clinically stable AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD and MOGAD patients. METHODS: In this cross-sectional study, clinically stable patients with AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD (N = 33) and MOGAD (N = 16), as diseased controls, underwent sGFAP and sNfL measurements by single molecule array, retinal optical coherence tomography and visually evoked potentials. RESULTS: Higher sGFAP concentrations were associated with thinner ganglion cell-inner plexiform layer (ß (95% confidence interval (CI)) = -0.75 (-1.23 to -0.27), p = 0.007) and shallower fovea (average pit depth: ß (95%CI) = -0.59 (-0.63 to -0.55), p = 0.020) in NMOSD non-ON eyes. Participants with pathological P100 latency had higher sGFAP (median [interquartile range]: 131.32 [81.10-179.34] vs. 89.50 [53.46-121.91] pg/ml, p = 0.024). In MOGAD, sGFAP was not associated with retinal structural or visual functional measures. CONCLUSIONS: The association of sGFAP with structural and functional markers of afferent visual system damage in absence of ON suggests that sGFAP may be a sensitive biomarker for chronic disease severity in clinically stable AQP4-IgG+ NMOSD.
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Enfermedades de la Retina
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Neuritis Óptica
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Neuromielitis Óptica
Tipo de estudio:
Observational_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
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En
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Mult Scler Relat Disord
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2022
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Article
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