Journal Reviews

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Correlation between aqueous flare and macular microvascular status in diabetes mellitus

7 April 2021 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Aqueous flare, Diabetic retinopathy, Inflammation, Laser flare-cell meter, Microvascular injury, Optic coherence tomography angiography

The authors report a cross-sectional study which was conducted to investigate the correlation between aqueous flare and macular microvascular status, assessed by optic coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in diabetes mellitus. Fifty-two diabetic patients with non-proliferative retinopathy, 44 diabetic patients without...

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Conservative surgical management of optic disc pit maculopathy

5 August 2020 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Optic disc pit maculopathy, Vitrectomy, Laser, Gas tamponade, Posterior vitreous detachment

Four cases are presented in this case report that illustrates the option of conservative surgical management for optic disc pit complicated by maculopathy (ODP-M). Four men aged 24-67-years-old with no spontaneous resolution of ODP-M for a minimum of three months,...

RaScaL Study

1 June 2015 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | Diabetic macular edema, Fluorescein angiography, Anti-VEGF, Ranibizumab, Laser photocoagulation, Combination therapy, Optical coherence tomography

The RaScaL study was a six month, single-centre, controlled, prospective phase I/II study in which subjects with diabetic macular oedema (DME) and associated peripheral nonperfusion on ultrawide-field fluorescein angiography (UWFA) were randomised to: (1) study arm: ranibizumab (0.5 mg) injection...