High prevalence of capillary abnormalities in patients with diabetes and association with retinopathy

Diabetic Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1039-1044

  Barchetta, I ^a   Riccieri, V ^a   Vasile, M ^a   Stefanantoni, K ^a   Comberiati, P ^a   Taverniti, L ^a   Cavallo, M G ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Diabetes; Microangiopathy; Nailfold videocapillaroscopy; Retinopathy

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CAPILLAROSCOPY; CAPILLARY DENSITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIABETIC PATIENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDEMA; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MALE; MICROANGIOPATHY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINOPATHY; VARICOSIS;

CAPILLARIES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINAL VESSELS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 80051625572     PISSN: 07423071     EISSN: 14645491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-5491.2011.03325.x     Document Type: Article

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