OBJECTIVE Insulin resistance may be a risk factor for diabetic microangiopathy, which may have a familial component. We carried out a family-based study to determine which components of the insulin resistance syndrome are associated with diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy in type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The Genesis France-Belgium Study is a multicenter binational study desig...

INTRODUCTION Normal bacterial flora may be altered by a variety of factors. OBJECTIVE To study the aerobic bacterial conjunctival flora in patients with diabetes mellitus and to find its clinical significance by comparing the results to the conjunctival flora of non-diabetic subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 75 diabetic patients were included as cases and 25 nondiabetics as control...

Objective To investigate the manifestation characteristics of fundus fluorescence angiography (FFA) and its values in diagnosing diabetic retinopathy through comparing direct ophthalmoscopy. Methods Two hundred fifty patients (500 eyes) who were suspected as diabetic retinopathy and admitted to the hospital between February 2015 and December 2016 were selected. They underwent direct ophthalmo...

Diabetic retinopathy is a common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus and one the leading causes acquired blindness. Microalbuminuria reflects pathophysiological state vascular dysfunction organ damage. It noticed that rise in urinary albumin excretion seen early phase diabetic retinopathy. The concordance microalbuminuria has been well reported type 1 diabetes; however, for 2 diabet...

Background: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes vision loss which occurs as a result microvascular complication diabetes. The aim study to assess prevalence and factors associated with development diabetic among patients attending eye camps in hospital northern Bangladesh. Methods: This was population-based cross-sectional study, conducted through five comprehensive at associ...

PURPOSE To study the subbasal corneal plexus (SCP) in patients with diabetic retinopathy (DR) treated or nontreated with panretinal Argon laser photocoagulation (ALP). METHOD Fifty consecutive patients with DR and 50 age- and sex-matched normal control subjects were examined with retinal tomography by a masked evaluator. The following subbasal plexus nerves parameters were considered: number ...

AIMS The therapeutic efficacy of the continuous wave (CW) Nd:YAG laser (working in the free running mode) was investigated in proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) comparing it with a conventional laser source such as the krypton laser. METHODS Twenty four eyes of 12 patients affected with bilateral PDR were included and divided in two groups. The right eyes were treated with a red krypton...

PURPOSE To evaluate the additional therapeutic effect of single intravitreal bevacizumab injection on standard laser treatment in the management of proliferative diabetic retinopathy. METHODS A prospective, fellow-eye sham controlled clinical trial was conducted on 80 eyes of 40 high-risk characteristic proliferative diabetic retinopathy type II diabetics. All cases received standard laser tr...

Purpose To report regression of neovascularization and reperfusion of ischemic areas of the retina on Wide-field Digital Fluorescein Angiography following anti-vascular endothelial growth factor injections in a patient with active Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy. Observations Case report of sixty-one-year-old male patient with proliferative diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema d...