Early retinal neurovascular findings in post-transplant diabetes mellitus patients without clinical signs of diabetic retinopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Post-transplant diabetes mellitus (PTDM) is a specific subtype of diabetes with an uncertain impact on mortality and morbidity in post-transplant patients. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common microvascular complication of diabetes mellitus, but the long-term clinical progression in PTDM is unknown. New technologies are being used to assess pre-clinical signs of retinal changes, such as swept-source optical coherence tomography (OCT) and OCT-angiography. The aim of this study was to detect pre-clinical structural and vascular changes in the retina using swept-source-OCT and OCT-angiography in patients with PTDM.

Methods

In this retrospective cohort study, post-kidney transplant patients were divided into PTDM and non-PTDM (control) groups. Both eyes of eligible

SUBMITTER: do Carmo Chaves AEC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10463975 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature