Asymmetric retinopathy in patients with diabetes mellitus.
We reviewed retrospectively the records of 57 diabetic patients with asymmetric retinopathy persisting for two years or more (mean, 4.8 years) to identify intraocular risk and protective factors for the development of proliferative retinopathy. For each patient in this series, the more severely affected eye had proliferative retinopathy and the fellow eye had either background diabetic retinopathy or no retinopathy. Branch vein occlusion (P = .016) was identified as a statistically significant risk factor for proliferative retinopathy and chorioretinal scarring (P = .031) was found to be a statistically significant protective intraocular factor. In 34 patients with long-standing asymmetric retinopathy, no intraocular risk or protective factors were identified.
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- Uveal Diseases
- Retinal Vein Occlusion
- Retinal Diseases
- Refractive Errors
- Ophthalmology & Optometry
- Middle Aged
- Male
- Intraocular Pressure
- Humans
- Fluorescein Angiography
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Published In
DOI
ISSN
Publication Date
Volume
Issue
Start / End Page
Location
Related Subject Headings
- Uveal Diseases
- Retinal Vein Occlusion
- Retinal Diseases
- Refractive Errors
- Ophthalmology & Optometry
- Middle Aged
- Male
- Intraocular Pressure
- Humans
- Fluorescein Angiography