Background: Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disorder of glucose metabolism that has serious clinical consequences including microvascular (retinopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy) and macrovascular (ischemic heart disease, stroke, peripheral vascular disease) complications. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a major cause of visual impairment worldwide in working-age individuals and is a micro-vascular complication. Aim and objectives: The aim of this study is to recognize the contributions of microvascular and neural changes in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy. Patients and methods:We conduct a cross-sectional analytical study of 22 eyes of diabetic patients and 22 eyes of matched controls, evaluated for retinal neuro-degeneration and micro-vascular changes at the Ophthalmology outpatient clinic, Suez Canal University (SCU) Hospital, Ismailia using OCT and OCTA. Results: Micro-vascular changes in the diabetic group showed mean±SD of the s-FAZ was 452.80±193.0µm2,mean±SD d-FAZ was 717.71±233.13 µm2 and mean±SD of the foveal vessel density was 15.93±6.28%and in the control group showed mean±SD of s-FAZ was 285.40±68.65µm2, mean±SD of d-FAZ was 481.70±101.17µm2 and mean±SD of foveal vessel density was 20.33±3.10% and neurodegenerative changes showed mean±SD of macular GCL+ layer thickness for the diabetic group was 61.41±5.20µm while for the control group was 66.82±6.82µm and mean±SD of macular GCL++ layer thickness for the diabetic group was 98.73±7.64µm and for the control group was 106.41±11.59µm. Conclusion: Micro-vascular assessment in diabetic patients showed there is enlargement in s-FAZ and d-FAZ areas and their neural assessment showed there is thinning in the inner retinal layers, so there is a negative relationship between them.
Abd El- Basset Mourad, A., EL-Nahass, H., & Ghonaim, M. (2023). Ganglion Cell Complex and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Assessment of Early Diabetic Retinal Changes. Suez Canal University Medical Journal, 26(3), 24-35. doi: 10.21608/scumj.2023.305076
MLA
Ahmed Mohamed Abd El- Basset Mourad; Hussein Salah El-Deen EL-Nahass; Mahmoud Ahmed Ali Ghonaim. "Ganglion Cell Complex and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Assessment of Early Diabetic Retinal Changes", Suez Canal University Medical Journal, 26, 3, 2023, 24-35. doi: 10.21608/scumj.2023.305076
HARVARD
Abd El- Basset Mourad, A., EL-Nahass, H., Ghonaim, M. (2023). 'Ganglion Cell Complex and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Assessment of Early Diabetic Retinal Changes', Suez Canal University Medical Journal, 26(3), pp. 24-35. doi: 10.21608/scumj.2023.305076
VANCOUVER
Abd El- Basset Mourad, A., EL-Nahass, H., Ghonaim, M. Ganglion Cell Complex and Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography in Assessment of Early Diabetic Retinal Changes. Suez Canal University Medical Journal, 2023; 26(3): 24-35. doi: 10.21608/scumj.2023.305076
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