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Spectrum of Eye Disease in Diabetes (SPEED) in India: A prospective facility-based study. Report # 3. Retinal vascular occlusion in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Conclusion: RVO is a frequent finding in people with T2DM. History of stroke carries the highest risk followed by HTN. The management of people with T2DM and RVO must also include comanagement of all associated systemic conditions.
Source: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology - January 16, 2020 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Harsha Bhattacharjee Manabjyoti Barman Divakant Misra Prabhjot K Multani Shriya Dhar Umesh C Behera Taraprasad Das Clare Gilbert G V S Murthy R Rajalakshmi Hira B Pant on behalf of the SPEED study group Source Type: research

Long-term resolution of blinding polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy with recurrent bilateral central involvement by low-dose oral eplerenone treatment
Alexander Arthur Bialasiewicz, Mahmoud Abdelhamid, Radha Shenoy, Manish BarmanMiddle East African Journal of Ophthalmology 2016 23(2):225-228A 55-year-old male presented with serous retinal detachment over 3 months in his right eye. His left eye was blind due to retinal pigment epithelium detachment since 1997 with atrophy of the neurosensory retina. Fluorescein angiography had previously shown bilateral polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV). Optical coherence tomography (OCT) confirmed PCV with central involvement. The patient underwent intravitreal injections of 6x Lucentis, 4x Avastin and one injection of aflibercept....
Source: Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology - April 4, 2016 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Alexander Arthur BialasiewiczMahmoud AbdelhamidRadha ShenoyManish Barman Source Type: research

The New Era of Retinal Imaging in Hypertensive Patients
Structural and functional alterations in the microcirculation by systemic hypertension can cause significant organ damage at the eye, heart, brain, and kidneys. As the retina is the only tissue in the body that allows direct imaging of small vessels, the relationship of hypertensive retinopathy signs with development of disease states in other organs have been extensively studied; large-scale epidemiological studies using fundus photography and advanced semi-automated analysis software have reported the association of retinopathy signs with hypertensive end-organ damage includes the following: stroke, dementia, and coronar...
Source: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology - March 1, 2022 Category: Opthalmology Tags: Review Article Source Type: research