BACKGROUND Lupus retinopathy is one of the most common vision-threatening complications of systemic lupus erythematosus. The presence of lupus retinopathy is an accurate guide to the presence of active systemic disease activity. RESULTS A prospective study was conducted looking at 91 established cases of systemic lupus erythematosus to evaluate lupus retinopathy. The patients were divided int...

Aim: To elucidate clinical features in patients with type 2 diabetes with advanced retinopathy but without nephropathy. Methods: This study examined 1324 patients (784 males and 540 females) with type 2 diabetes mellitus. Diabetic retinopathy was graded according to the International Clinical Classification of Diabetic Retinopathy as no diabetic retinopathy, mild or moderate non-proliferative d...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the incidence of diabetic retinopathy in relation to retinopathy grade at first examination and other prognostic characteristics. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was a dynamic cohort study of 20,686 people with type 2 diabetes who had annual retinal photography up to 14 times between 1990 and 2006. Cumulative and annual incidence rates were estimated using life tables, ...

AIMS To study associations between diabetic retinopathy and development of stroke, myocardial infarction and death in type 2 diabetic patients. METHODS During a 10-year observation period, 363 type 2 diabetic patients (diagnosis > or =30 years of age) attending an outpatient clinic were studied regarding the prevalence and incidence of retinopathy and associated risk factors, i.e., (HbA(1c), ...

the aim of this study was to estimate the incidence of retinopathy of permaturity (rop) and to evaluate possible neonatal risk factors for rop. the main study was a cross-sectional study including 150 high-risk neonates born at teaching hospitals of tehran universities referring to to farabi eye hospital. the chossing critertia were birth weight less than 2500 g or gestational age younger than ...

AIM To evaluate the use of scatter laser photocoagulation to prevent radiation related retinopathy, maculopathy, and loss of vision. METHODS This was an interventional case series. 66 eyes with posterior choroidal melanomas treated by ophthalmic plaque radiation therapy were reported. Of these patients, 50 were selected because they developed radiation retinopathy; 45 of these were treated wi...

BACKGROUND This cross sectional investigation included 12,966 subjects with hypertension, a cohort of the China Stroke Primary Prevention Trial (CSPPT), a randomized, multicenter clinical trial. This study aimed to explore the correlation between serum uric acid (SUA) concentration and hypertensive retinopathy in hypertensive adults. METHODS Diagnosis of hypertensive retinopathy was determine...

Diabetic retinopathy is considered the ghost cause of vision deterioration; it attributed to elevated oxidative stress. Antioxidants, like melatonin, were found be affected indiabetic retinopathy. In present paper, we aim explore melatonin levels in various stages ofdiabetic

Objective(s):To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on the contributions of GST genetic variants to the risk of diabetic retinopathy in an Iranian population. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether sequence variation in glutathione S-transferase gene (GSTM1 and GSTT1) is associated with development of diabetic retinopathy in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D...

retinopathy) (3). Our data relate to patients 20 years old and cannot be generalized to the adult population. Stefánsson states that in Iceland, no patient progressed from “no retinopathy” to “vision-threatening retinopathy” within 2 years. However, since collecting the original data (1990–2002), we have been informed of two former patients who had rapid progression from level 31 and level 45 r...