Visual Fields Refine Understanding of Diabetic Retinopathy Progression

Visual fields in diabetic retinopathy.

New Understanding of Diabetic Retinopathy

The rate of fluorophore accumulation in the lens of the eye in patients with type 1 diabetes is inceased in proportion to glycemic control, researchers reported. “This parameter alone is, however, not sufficient to explain the entire variation in lens fluorophore accumulation,” researchers wrote in the British Journal of Ophthalmology. They reported that lens fluorescence must be influenced by ...

[Progression of diabetic retinopathy after cataract extraction].

A prospective study of the effect of cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation on the course of diabetic retinopathy (DR) in 44 patients (59 eyes) was carried out. It showed that in the 1-3 years following surgery, there was progression of DR (including development of newly formed retinopathy) in 35% of the patients (28.8% of eyes). Progression was more marked in patients with pre-...

Visual Psychophysics in Diabetic Retinopathy

INTRODUCTION Irreversible and severe visual loss may represent the end of long lasting diabetic retin-opathy. The progression of visual impairment and the quantification of final residual visual function are currently determined by means of diagnostic tests which rely on the physiological and mathematical principles of psychophysics. The best known among these tests is the quantification of vis...

Progression of diabetic retinopathy after cataract extraction

The course of diabetic retinopathy following cataract extraction was studied retrospectively in 89 patients (89 eyes). Cataract extraction was extracapsular in 12 eyes (13.5%), extracapsular with intraocular lens implantation in 37 (41.6%), and intracapsular in 40 (45%). In 55 eyes (61.8%) there was no change in the retinal status after surgery, and in 34 (38.2%) there was progression of diabet...