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DigiScope found useful in screening for AMD

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A digital imaging system may be useful in screening for age-related macular degeneration in the primary care physician’s office, according to a presentation here.

Ingrid Zimmer-Galler and Ran Zeimer examined 40 eyes of 20 patients with different levels of AMD. Images of the eye taken with the EyeTel DigiScope were compared to images taken with a color fundus camera.

Five eyes had choroidal neovascularization, 18 eyes had large drusen, six eyes had geographic atrophy and six had small drusen. In 39 of the 40 eyes examined, the lesions were correctly classified by the DigiScope images when compared to the fundus images, according to the authors.

“The DigiScope was found superior to the color fundus photographs in identifying drusen, subretinal hemorrhage and geographic atrophy,” Dr. Zimmer-Galler told attendees here at the International Society for Imaging in the Eye meeting.

The device was less useful in detecting subretinal fluids than stereo fundus photographs, she added.

The DigiScope recently received U.S. regulatory approval for use in screening for diabetic retinopathy.