Early Detection of Diabetic Retinopathy
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a primary cause of visual impairment worldwide. Diabetes mellitus may be associated with ophthalmoscopically nonvisible neurovascular damage that progresses before the first clinical signs of DR appear. Reduction of the inner neuroretinal layer thickness on macular optical coherence tomography (OCT), reduced contrast sensitivity primarily at low spatial frequencies, abnormal results in color vision and microperimetry tests, and a prolonged implicit time recorded by multifocal electroretinography have been proposed for detection of early functional and nonvisible structural neuroretinal changes.
Source: Survey of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Hamid Safi, Sare Safi, Ali Hafezi-Moghadam, Hamid Ahmadieh Tags: Major review Source Type: research
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