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Collaborating across the Caribbean to tackle diabetic retinopathy
1 December 2017
| Pippa Williams, Melissa Bailey, Covadonga Bascaran, Marcia Zondervan
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AMD, Emergency Ophthalmology, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The VISION 2020 LINKS Programme has been running since 2004, with a focus on improving the quality and quantity of eye care training in low-income countries [1]. In 2014, the Diabetic Retinopathy Network (DR-NET) was established [2]. This is a...
Situation analysis of diabetic retinopathy services in eleven countries
1 December 2015
| Peter Blows, Tunde Peto, Heiko Philippin, Marcia Zondervan
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AMD, Emergency Ophthalmology, Genetics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
A five-year project funded by The Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Trust is facilitating development of diabetic retinopathy services (DRS) to reduce unnecessary blindness in 10 Commonwealth countries through the establishment of a capacity-building network, the DR-NET part of the Commonwealth...
Retinal ischaemia on OCTA and diabetic retinopathy grade
1 April 2020
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
The authors quite rightly point out that quantification of retinal ischaemia has the potential to serve as a biomarker for diabetic retinopathy disease progression. They set out to investigate the relationship between area of ischaemia on a swept source OCTA...
Control of diabetic retinopathy after bariatric surgery
3 June 2021
| Tasmin Berman
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This systemic review and meta-analysis assessed prevalence of diabetic retinopathy including sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy after surgery. They included 14 studies with 110,300 surgical patients and 252,289 control subjects. They proposed that the risk of having any form of diabetic retinopathy...
ANGPTL-4 inhibition reduces inflammation in diabetic retinopathy
1 June 2018
| Graham Wallace
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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Adipocytokine, Angiopoietin-like protein-4 (ANGPTL-4), Diabetic retinopathy (DR), Hypoxia inducible factor-1 alpha (HIF-1α), Inflammation, Profilin-1
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the most common cause of blindness in working-age humans, and numbers are rising due to increased cases of type 2 diabetes (T2D). T2D is associated with increased obesity and dyslipidaemia, which is a major risk factor...
Retinal ganglion cell loss in diabetes and diabetic retinopathy
1 October 2016
| Anjali Gupta
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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diabetes, diabetic retinopathy, neuronal damage, optical coherence tomography, retinal ganglion cell
The aim of this observational case control study was to evaluate the association of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) with retinal ganglion cell loss. Cases were Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes with and without DR, aged 40-80 years. Eligible...
Relationship between diabetic retinopathy and cerebrovascular reactivity changes
1 March 2024
| Claire Howard
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
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Cerebral vasomotor reactivity, breath-holding index, diabetes mellitus, diabetic retinopathy, transcranial Doppler ultrasound
Cerebral micro-angiopathy caused by diabetes can manifest itself as an impairment in cerebrovascular reactivity. Transcranial doppler ultrasound (TCD) is a cost-effective and non-invasive way to measure the cerebrovascular reactivity. This study aimed to assess the relationship between the grade of...
Hyper reflective foci (HRF) on OCT in diabetic retinopathy
1 April 2015
| Saruban Pasu
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
This study investigated the presence of hyper reflective foci (HRF) in asymptomatic patients affected by type 1 or type 2 diabetes, separately, without clinically significant diabetic macular oedema and visual impairment. In total 71 eyes with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy were...
Diabetic Retinopathy Network laser training programme
5 February 2020
| Nick Astbury, Denise Mabey, Joachim Kilemile, William Makupa, Marcia Zondervan
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Ophthalmology, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
The VISION 2020 Diabetic Retinopathy Network (DR-NET) was established in 2014 to tackle the increasing burden of diabetes and diabetic retinopathy (DR) in developing countries [1]. By forming a network of long-term LINK capacity-building partnerships, learning and best practice can...
Building capacity for diabetic retinopathy services in Malawi
1 August 2019
| Roxanne Annoh, Joseph Msosa, Caroline Styles, Moira Gandiwa, Anne Sinclair, Marcia Zondervan
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Ophthalmology, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
Screening for diabetic retinopathy prevents blindness. There is no systematic screening programme for diabetic eye disease in Malawi and people present when they have lost vision and it is too late for treatment. The aim of the VISION 2020 LINK...
Launch of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Service in UHWI Jamaica
1 June 2016
| Lizette Mowatt, Peter Mitchell, Tunde Peto, Marcia Zondervan
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EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
At 2.55pm on Wednesday 16 March 2016 the first patient was screened and given her results in the new nurse-led Diabetic Retinopathy Screening (DRS) Clinic at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI), Kingston, Jamaica. This was the result...
Tackling diabetic retinopathy globally through the VISION 2020 LINKS Diabetic Retinopathy Network
1 February 2017
| Nick Astbury, Philip Burgess, Allen Foster (Prof), Denise Mabey, Marcia Zondervan
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Genetics, Ophthalmology, Optometry, AMD, Emergency Ophthalmology, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Cornea, EYE - Glaucoma, EYE - Imaging, EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology, EYE - Oculoplastic, EYE - Oncology, EYE - Orbit, EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Pathology, EYE - Refractive, EYE - Strabismus, EYE - Vitreo-Retinal
It is abundantly clear that the burden of diabetes is rapidly increasing, as there are now 415 million adults with diabetes in the world, with a projected rise to 642 million by 2040 [1]. This equates to 1 in 10...