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Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.20471/acc.2020.59.03.05

Screening for Diabetic Retinopathy – a Twelve-Month Review

Tomaž Gračner ; Maribor University Clinical Centre, Department of Ophthalmology, Maribor, Slovenia; University of Maribor, Faculty of Medicine, Maribor, Slovenia


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Abstract

The purpose is to provide a twelve-month database review of screening for diabetic retinopathy (DR). A total of 1428 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients screened in 2017 were analyzed in a retrospective study. Retinal photographs were reviewed by an ophthalmologist for the presence and stage of DR, as well as for additional nondiabetic findings. The following grading categories of DR were used: without DR, mild non-proliferative DR (NPDR), moderate NPDR, severe nonproliferative
NPDR, proliferative DR (PDR), clinically significant macular edema (CSME) and ungradable finding. Severe NPDR, PDR and CSME were classified as vision-threatening DR. Out of 1428 DM patients, 27 were diagnosed with type 1 DM and 1401 with type 2 DM, 353 of them had
newly diagnosed type 2 DM. Without DR category was recorded in 85.2% of all eyes screened, 2.8% were ungradable, and 12% showed varying stages of DR. Vision-threatening DR was found in 2.8% and additional nondiabetic findings in 5.2% of all screened eyes. In the group of newly diagnosed type 2 DM, 92.5% of screened eyes were without DR, 3.1% were ungradable and 4.3% showed varying stages of DR. In the group of newly diagnosed type 2 DM, vision-threatening DR was recorded in 0.1% and additional nondiabetic finding in 5.7% of the eyes screened. In conclusion, a small proportion of screened DM patients with detected DR had vision-threatening DR.

Keywords

Diabetes mellitus; Diabetic retinopathy; Screening; Proliferative retinopathy; Maculopathy

Hrčak ID:

247385

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/247385

Publication date:

1.9.2020.

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