OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and pattern of diabetic retinopathy in newly diagnosed black African patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and the associated risk factors. DESIGN Cross-sectional hospital-based study. SETTING Eye clinic of Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya. SUBJECTS Africans aged 20 years and above with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes mellitus of up to 12 m...

PURPOSE To investigate whether topical insulin improves healing rate of corneal epithelial erosions induced during vitreoretinal surgery in diabetics. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed case notes and serial post-operative photographs of 15 eyes of 14 patients who had corneal epithelial debridement performed during various vitreoretinal surgeries to improve one surgeon's view over a 10 month...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To assess the role of optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the evaluation and follow-up after vitrectomy for diabetic macular edema. MATERIALS AND METHODS The 18 eyes of 12 patients affected by presumed diabetic vitreous-induced macular edema underwent biomicroscopy with a Goldmann contact lens, fluorescein angiography, and OCT. RESULTS OCT revealed two patterns of...

OBJECTIVE To determine the outcomes of early vitrectomy and endolaser photocoagulation effects during phacoemulsification in cataractous eyes with diabetic retinopathy. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Ophthalmology Department Unit-II, DUHS, Civil Hospital, Karachi, and Al-Noor Eye Clinic, Karachi, from February 2009 to December 2010. METHODOLOGY Consecutive 54 ...

PURPOSE To evaluate outcomes of submacular surgery to remove massive submacular hard exudates with diabetic macular edema. DESIGN Retrospective, non-comparative, interventional consecutive case series. PARTICIPANTS Fifty-six eyes of 40 patients with massive submacular hard exudates with diabetic macular edema. INTERVENTION Submacular surgery was performed to remove massive submacular hard...

Abstract Purpose Visual outcomes after cataract surgery in diabetic patients with retinal or visual pathway disease are difficult to predict as the fundus may be obscured, and assessment of potential is challenging. This study assessed value electrophysiology a prognostic indicator recovery cataract, prior surgery. Methods Forty-one (aged 52–80; 74 eyes) 13 age-matched non-diabetic control (21 ...

PURPOSE It is aimed to evaluate the technical feasibility, safety, outcome, and incidence of complications after clear corneal phacoemulsification with foldable intraocular lens implantation (IOL) and triamcinolone assisted pars plana vitrectomy in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. METHODS The results of combined phacoemulsification, in the capsular bag foldable intraocular le...

PURPOSE This study was designed to examine choroidal thickness in patients with diabetes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. METHODS Forty-nine patients (49 eyes) with diabetes and 24 age-matched normal subjects underwent high-definition raster scanning using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography with frame enhancement software. Patients with diabetes were classified in...

The authors compared, in the context of diabetic retinopathy, alternative methods of quantifying the extent to which disease progression in one eye increases the risk of subsequent progression in the other eye. Data were gathered on 478 US patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus who participated in the 1983-1988 Sorbinil Retinopathy Trial and were followed up for a median of 41 months...

AIM To evaluate the effectiveness and safety of high-speed (5,000 cuts per minute) 23 G transconjunctival sutureless vitrectomy (TSV) in severe diabetic fibrovascular proliferation (DFVP). PATIENTS AND METHODS In this retrospective consecutive case series, patients who underwent 23 G TSV for severe DFVP between October 2011 and March 2014 at our institution were evaluated. 23 G TSV was perfor...