New Trends for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis

Joana Tavares Ferreira, Luís Abegão Pinto

2017

Abstract

Diabetes Mellitus is one of the most common chronic diseases in the world and is a critical public health problem that could even be considered a pandemic. The diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in adults. Diabetic retinopathy is now considered to be a new neurodegenerative disease. In fact, retinal neurodegeneration is present before any microcirculatory abnormalities can be detected in ophthalmoscopy. Functional studies documenting electroretinogram abnormalities, loss of dark adaptation, contrast sensitivity and colour vision and abnormal microperimetry that occur before any vascular abnormality. Novel imaging optical devices have allowed that this pre-vascular damage to be quantified in a non-invasive and reproducible way with retinal layer and choroidal thickness measurement.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Tavares Ferreira J. and Abegão Pinto L. (2017). New Trends for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: BONano, (PHOTOPTICS 2017) ISBN 978-989-758-223-3, pages 402-406. DOI: 10.5220/0006328304020406

in Bibtex Style

@conference{bonano17,
author={Joana Tavares Ferreira and Luís Abegão Pinto},
title={New Trends for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: BONano, (PHOTOPTICS 2017)},
year={2017},
pages={402-406},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006328304020406},
isbn={978-989-758-223-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology - Volume 1: BONano, (PHOTOPTICS 2017)
TI - New Trends for Early Diabetic Retinopathy Diagnosis
SN - 978-989-758-223-3
AU - Tavares Ferreira J.
AU - Abegão Pinto L.
PY - 2017
SP - 402
EP - 406
DO - 10.5220/0006328304020406