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Sickle cell maculopathy

1 October 2021 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous | OCT imaging, Sickle cell disease, Sickle cell maculopathy, Visual impairment
This paper reports the result of a prospective study to analyse the prevalence of sickle cell maculopathy (SCM) and its associations with age, sex, genotype, proliferative sickle cell retinopathy (PSR) stage, and the impact on visual acuity (VA). This study...

Clinical predictors of proliferative sickle cell retinopathy

29 March 2024 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is an inherited disorder resulting in production of Haemoglobin S (HbS), which aggregates in conditions of hypoxia, acidosis or hyperosmolarity. This leads to vascular stasis, thrombosis and ischaemia. The authors present a cross-sectional study (45 consecutive...

Sickle cell eye disease: an overview of vitreoretinal complications and their surgical management

1 December 2016 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
Sickle cell disease is the most common genetic disorder worldwide and is associated with lifelong anaemia, intermittent pain and multi-organ morbidity. Ocular involvement can be associated with significant visual impairment due to the complications of proliferative sickle retinopathy (PSR). Occasionally...

Screening for Sickle Cell Retinopathy (SCR): Why we do wide-field imaging, OCT/OCT-A for SCR – Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

1 June 2022 | | Retina / Uvea / Vitreous, Imaging
I have been working in ophthalmology for over five years as a photographer and research co-ordinator, and it is fascinating, rewarding, and interesting to learn all about the different diseases associated with the eye. One condition that has been a...

Hospital wins funding to investigate sickle cell sight loss.

12 July 2023
The hospital trust is the first in the UK to lead on a research project to understand the impact of sickle cell disease on eyesight.