scholarly journals Selective Loss of Inner Retinal Layer Thickness in Type 1 Diabetic Patients with Minimal Diabetic Retinopathy

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (7) ◽  
pp. 3404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hille W. van Dijk ◽  
Pauline H. B. Kok ◽  
Mona Garvin ◽  
Milan Sonka ◽  
J. Hans DeVries ◽  
...  
2021 ◽  
pp. 112067212199057
Author(s):  
Tomás de Oliveira Loureiro ◽  
João Nobre Cardoso ◽  
Carlos Diogo Pinheiro Lima Lopes ◽  
Ana Rita Carreira ◽  
Sandra Rodrigues-Barros ◽  
...  

Background/objectives: Continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) is a treatment for type 1 diabetes that improves metabolic control and reduces micro and macrovascular complications. The aim of this study was to compare the effect of CSII versus traditional multiple daily injections (MDI) therapy on retinal vasculature. Methods: We performed a prospective study with type 1 diabetic patients with no prior history of ocular pathology other than mild diabetic retinopathy. The patients were divided into two groups according to their therapeutic modality (CSII vs MDI). The retinal nerve fiber layers thickness and vascular densities were compared between groups in both macula and optic disc. The correlations between vascular density and clinical features were also determined. Statistical significance was defined as p < 0.05. Results: The study included 52 eyes, 28 in the insulin CSII group. The mean age was 36.66 ± 12.97 years, with no difference between groups ( p = 0.49). The mean glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) was found to be lower in the CSII group (7.1% ± 0.7 vs 7.5% ± 0.7 p < 0.01). The parafoveal vascular density was found to be higher in the CSII group (42.5% ± 0.4 vs 37.7% ± 0.6, p < 0.01). We found an inverse correlation between HbA1c value and parafoveal vascular densities ( p < 0.01, r = −0.50). Conclusion: We found that CSII provided better metabolic control than MDI and this seemed to result in higher parafoveal vascular density. As lower vascular density is associated with an increased risk of diabetic retinopathy, these results suggest that CSII could be the safest therapeutic option to prevent retinopathy.


2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 174-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonas Vejvad Nørskov Laursen ◽  
Stine Skovbo Hoffmann ◽  
Anders Green ◽  
Mads Nybo ◽  
Anne Katrin Sjølie ◽  
...  

Diabetes Care ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 2038-2042 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Pemp ◽  
E. Polska ◽  
G. Garhofer ◽  
M. Bayerle-Eder ◽  
A. Kautzky-Willer ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 506-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Romero-Aroca ◽  
Marc Baget-Bernaldiz ◽  
Javier Reyes-Torres ◽  
Juan Fernandez-Ballart ◽  
Nuria Plana-Gil ◽  
...  

2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Hassan Khazaee ◽  
Jalil Tavakol Afshari ◽  
Bahram Khazaee ◽  
Ramin Daneshvar ◽  
Javad Akbarzadeh ◽  
...  

Purpose To investigate if diabetic patients without diabetic retinopathy despite long disease duration have different human leukocyte antigen (HLA) status vs those with an early onset of retinopathy. Methods Retrospective, nonrandomized, masked comparative study. Type 1 diabetic patients with a disease onset before age 30 were recruited to the study. The study population consisted of two groups of diabetic patients: those with normal retinopathy course (retinopathy developed during the first 20 years of diabetes onset) (23 patients) and those with postponed retinopathy (no obvious retinopathy in spite of passing 20 years of diabetes) (19 patients). These groups were matched with regard to level of glycemic control, blood pressure, and lipid profile. A group of 23 healthy patients served as controls. HLA-DQB1 typing of blood samples was done using a polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primer (PCR-SSP) method. Results HLA-DQB1*0201/HLA-DQB1*0501 and HLA-DQB1*0201/HLA-DQB1*0504 haplotypes were more common among type 1 diabetic patients with normal retinopathy course than those with postponed retinopathy (26.1% vs 0.0%; p=0.019). HLA-DQB1*0301 and HLA-DQB1*0304 were less common among those diabetic patients with normal retinopathy course than those with a postponed retinopathy (63.2% vs 34.8%; p=0.067). Conclusions Some haplotypes seem to predispose diabetic patients to diabetic retinopathy. HLA typing may be beneficial for predicting the prognosis of diabetic retinopathy in younger diabetic patients.


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