Hyperreflective retinal spots and visual function after anti-vascular endothelial growth factor treatment in center-involving diabetic macular edema

Retina

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1298-1308

  Vujosevic, Stela ^a   Berton, Marianna ^a   Bini, Silvia ^a   Casciano, Margherita ^a   Cavarzeran, Fabiano ^a   Midena, Edoardo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE BIETTI   (Italy)

Author keywords

anti VEGF; diabetic macular edema; fixation; hyperreflective spots; microperimetry; OCT; retinal sensitivity

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITOR; RANIBIZUMAB; VASCULOTROPIN A; VEGFA PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL RETINAL THICKNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIABETIC MACULAR EDEMA; DIABETIC PATIENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPERREFLECTIVE RETINAL SPOTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; RETINA FOVEA; SPECTRAL DOMAIN OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; AGED; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EYE FIXATION; INTRAVITREAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MACULAR EDEMA; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIMETRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETINA;

AGED; ANGIOGENESIS INHIBITORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAVITREAL INJECTIONS; MACULAR EDEMA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RANIBIZUMAB; RETINA; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD TESTS;

EID: 84951285397     PISSN: 0275004X     EISSN: 15392864     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/IAE.0000000000000912     Document Type: Article

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