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. 2010 Aug 1;5(4):557-577.
doi: 10.1586/eop.10.44.

Comprehensive Review of the Effects of Diabetes on Ocular Health

Kathryn Skarbez, Yos Priestley, Marcia Hoepf, Steven B Koevary

Comprehensive Review of the Effects of Diabetes on Ocular Health

Kathryn Skarbez et al. Expert Rev Ophthalmol. .
No abstract available

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FIGURE 1
FIGURE 1
Left: Advanced visually significant posterior subcapsular cataract in the right eye at initial presentation. Right: Advanced visually significant posterior subcapsular cataract in the left eye at initial presentation. (Reproduced with permission from Sharma, P, Vasavada, AR. J Cataract Refract Surg 27:789–794, 2001) Left: Progressing centripetal regression of the posterior subcapsular cataract in the right eye 3 weeks after the initial presentation. Right: Irregular pattern of regression of the posterior subcapsular cataract in the left eye 3 weeks after the initial presentation. (Reproduced with permission from Sharma, P, Vasavada, AR. J Cataract Refract Surg 27:789–794, 2001)
FIGURE 2
FIGURE 2
Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy with clinically significant macular edema. (Reproduced with permission from The Wills Eye Manual: Office and Emergency Room Diagnosis and Treatment of Eye Disease, 5th edition; Ehlers and Shah, editors, Wolters Kluwer|Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Philadelphia, 2008)
FIGURE 3
FIGURE 3
Proliferative retinopathy with disc vessels, gliosis, and traction retinal detachment superiorly. (Reproduced with permission from Naji, A. and Vernon, SA. J R Soc Med 96:266–272, 2003)
FIGURE 4
FIGURE 4
Left eye. (Top) Late-phase fluorescein angiogram shows leakage from the optic nerve head with surrounding peripapillary hemorrhages. (Bottom) Late-phase fluorescein angiogram 2 weeks later shows almost complete resolution of leakage from the optic nerve head with decrease in the hemorrhages. Vision improved from counting fingers to 20/50. (Reproduced with permission from Al-Haddad, CE, Jurdi, FA, and Bashshur, ZF. Am J Ophthalmol 137:1151–1153, 2004)
FIGURE 5
FIGURE 5
Right eye. (Top) Late-phase fluorescein angiogram shows leakage from the optic nerve head with counting fingers vision. (Bottom) Two weeks later, there is significant decrease in the leakage on the late-phase angiogram and improvement in vision to 20/40. (Reproduced with permission from Al-Haddad, CE, Jurdi, FA, and Bashshur, ZF. Am J Ophthalmol 137:1151–1153, 2004)
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