Microaneurysm turnover in diabetic retinopathy assessed by automated retmarkerDR image analysis - Potential role as biomarker of response to ranibizumab treatment

Ophthalmologica

Volumn 231, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 198-203

  Leicht, Simon F ^a   Kernt, Marcus ^a   Neubauer, Aljoscha ^a   Wolf, Armin ^a   Oliveira, Carlos Manta ^b   Ulbig, Michael ^a   Haritoglou, Christos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Critical Health SA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Automated fundus image analysis; Diabetic macular edema; Diabetic retinopathy; Microaneurysm turnover; Optomap; Progression; Ranibizumab; Retmarker

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RANIBIZUMAB;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL RETINAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING SOFTWARE; MALE; MICROANEURYSM; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPE; SCANNING LASER OPHTHALMOSCOPY; TURNOVER TIME; AUTOMATED RETMARKERDR IMAGE ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROANEURYSM TURNOVER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL, HUMANIZED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPHTHALMOSCOPY; RETINA; RETINAL VESSELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84900531989     PISSN: 00303755     EISSN: 14230267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000357505     Document Type: Article

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