Glaucomatous eye macular ganglion cell complex thickness and its relation to temporal circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer thickness.

Purpose: To clarify the correlation between temporal circumpapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness and macular ganglion cell complex (mGCC) thickness in glaucomatous eyes.

Methods: Seventy-seven eyes of 77 subjects were categorized as normal, early glaucoma and moderate-to-advanced (moderate) glaucoma. After the circumpapillary RNFL thickness and mGCC thickness were measured, the temporal mean RNFL and mean mGCC were compared within the three groups.

Associations of renal vascular resistance with albuminuria and other macroangiopathy in type 2 diabetic patients.

Objective: Albuminuria can be caused by endothelial dysfunction as a result of ischemic nephropathy rather than classic diabetic nephropathy. We studied whether renal vascular resistance (resistive index [RI]) of the main renal arteries could be associated with albuminuria and further assessed the relationship between RI and aorta stiffness measured by brachial-ankle pulse-wave velocity (baPWV).

Research Design And Methods: We consecutively studied 150 patients with type 2 diabetes and the absence of clinically overt renal artery stenosis.