PURPOSE To correlate retinal vascular features with severity and systemic indicators of diabetic retinopathy (DR) using optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). METHODS A total of 209 eyes of 122 type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with DR and 60 eyes of 31 normal Indian subjects underwent OCTA imaging. The diabetic retinopathy patients were graded as having either nonproliferative diab...

In their recent article, Goldich et al. found that corneal hysteresis (CH), corneal resistance factor (CRF), and central corneal thickness were significantly higher in diabetic eyes than in healthy eyes and CH was claimed to be related to the corneal stiffness. However, we found significantly lower CH values in diabetic eyes than in eyes of healthy subjects. We believe that the statements that ...

The eyes of 658 patients attending a district general hospital diabetic clinic were examined for retinopathy requiring treatment by photocoagulation or vitreoretinal surgery. Although the majority of patients with serious retinopathy were already under ophthalmic supervision, 39 cases (52 eyes) were found which required treatment. Eighty eyes had had previous photocoagulation, and treatment was...

Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults. Early stage DR involves inflammation, vascular leakage, apoptosis of vascular cells and neurodegeneration. In this study, we hypothesized that cells derived from the stromal fraction of adipose tissue (ASC) could therapeutically rescue early stage DR features. Streptozotocin (STZ) induced diabetic athymic nude ra...

PURPOSE To describe the changes in retinal vascular caliber in response to a single injection of intravitreal triamcinolone (IVTA) in patients with refractory diabetic macular edema. METHODS Prospective data from a randomized clinical trial were used. The effects of IVTA versus sham injections in patients with refractory diabetic macular edema were evaluated in a randomized clinical trial inv...

Background and Objective: To evaluate the Inner-retinal cells survival after low duration laser treatment (50ms duration) measured by electroretinogram in patient with diabetic retinopathy Methods: Twenty-two eyes with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy or proliferative diabetic retinopathy that underwent three panretinal photocoagulation treatments were prospectively followed. The pa...

OBJECTIVE Telemedicine reporting of diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening using ultra-widefield (UWF) fundus camera. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional study of diabetic patients who visited the endocrinology department of a private multi-specialty hospital in United Arab Emirates between April 2015 and January 2017 who underwent UWF fundus imaging. Fundus pictures are then accessed at the R...

PURPOSE Combined pars plana vitrectomy, phacoemulsification, and intraocular lens implantation has become a widely accepted treatment for cataracts in patients with vitreoretinal diseases. We examined factors influencing the development of posterior synechia after this triple procedure. METHODS One hundred and three patients (107 eyes) were evaluated. The frequency of postoperative posterior ...

years; range 41-77 years. There were 16 (35.6%) male patients and 29(64.4%) female patients. Thirty-eight (84.4%) patients (40 eyes) had central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO), 7 (15.6%) patients (8 eyes) had branch vein occlusion (BRVO), and 29 (60.4%) eyes (all CRVO) had ischaemic vein occlusion. Twenty-eight (58.3%) eyes were blind, while 18 (37.5%) had visual impairment. Twenty-five (55.6%) ...

BACKGROUND The corneal endothelial structure may be changed in diabetic patients, but the results were variable. OBJECTIVE To compare the corneal endothelial structure including endothelial cell density, polymorphism, andpleomorphism, in diabetic and non-diabetic subjects. MATERIAL AND METHOD The corneal endothelial structure of diabetic and non-diabetic subjects were measured by specular m...