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. 2020 Mar 9;11:2040622320905215. doi: 10.1177/2040622320905215

Table 1.

A summary of studies reporting sector analysis of peripapillary RNFL changes in schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression. Effect size has been calculated as mean percentage reduction in disease versus healthy controls.

Schizophrenia
OCT type Global Superior
Temporal Inferior
Nasal
Study ST SN IT IN
Ascaso80 TD 7.8% 6.3% 7.9% 9.4% 10.7%
Ascaso75 SD 9.8%b 10.7%b 5.8% 9.2% 15.5%b
Celik72 SD 4.8% 5.1% 2.3% 4.7% 10.1% 6.7% 4.9%
Chu82a TD 1.0% 0.9% 0.9% −0.8% −0.1%
Lee62 SD 8.9% 11.7% 9.9% 7.4%
Topcu-Yilmaz79 SD 0.0% 0.8% −2.2% 1.4% 2.3% −1.4% −1.2%
Yilmaz81 SD 5.9% 1.7% 3.5% 3.8% 7.9%
Bipolar disorder
OCT type Global Superior
Temporal Inferior
Nasal
Study ST SN IT IN
Mehraban83 SD 6.8% 4.8% −1.3% 8.0% 10.5%
Kalenderoglu84 SD 5.9% 3.9% 5.3% −0.1% 3.5% 7.8% 3.1%
Khalil85 SD 14.8% 11.3% 7.4% 9.3% 3.6%
Polo86 SS 8.1% 16.5% 11.2% 4.3% 9.4% 4.7% 4.9%
Major depression
OCT type Global Superior
Temporal Inferior
Nasal
Study ST SN IT IN
Yildiz87 SD −0.1% 0.1% 4.2% –0.4% −5.4%
Sönmez88a SD 1.7% 1.2% −0.9% 0.2% −0.1% 2.6% 4.6%

Grey shading indicates statistical significance as chosen by each study investigator.

a

Mean of right and left eyes.

b

OD significant only.

IN, inferonasal; IT, inferotemporal; OCT, optical coherence tomography; RNFL, retinal nerve fibre layer; SD, spectral domain, SN, superonasal; ST, superotemporal; TD, time domain.