Effect of heredity on risk of diabetic retinopathy
1 September 2023
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Diabetic macular edema, heredity, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, risk factors, survival analysis
This study used survival analysis on 2199 patients who had reached vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy to investigate the contribution of heredity to diabetes together with other known risk factors for the development of either proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) or diabetic macular...
Control of bleeding with diabetic vitrectomy under air
1 August 2019
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Air-perfused membrane dissection, fibrovascular membrane, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, vitrectomy
The authors describe a modified diabetic vitrectomy using continuous air infusion in diabetic eyes with severe fibrovascular proliferation. In their case series of 25 eyes (20 patients), intravitreal bevacizumab (1.25mg) was used one week prior to surgery. Fifteen eyes had...
