Relationship between diabetic retinopathy, microalbuminuria and overt nephropathy, and twenty-year incidence follow-up of a sample of type 1 diabetic patients.

Purpose: To determine the incidence and relationship of diabetic retinopathy (DR), microalbuminuria and overt nephropathy (ON).

Method: A 20-year prospective study, in a cohort of 110 consecutive type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) patients, without diabetic retinopathy or microalbuminuria at enrolment in 1990.

Results: The 20-year incidence of any DR was 70.

Results at seven years after the use of intracamerular cefazolin as an endophthalmitis prophylaxis in cataract surgery.

Background: To evaluate results after seven years using prophylactic intracameral cefazolin for the prevention of endophthalmitis in cataract surgery.

Methods: A prospective, observational study of all patients submitted to cataract surgery over the period January 1996 to December 2009. All cases of postoperative endophthalmitis over that period were reviewed.

Ten-year incidence of diabetic retinopathy and macular edema. Risk factors in a sample of people with type 1 diabetes.

Aims: To determine the 10-year incidence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and macular edema (DME), and its relationship with its risk factors in a sample of type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Methods: A total of 334 patients without diabetic retinopathy at baseline underwent a 10-year prospective study, the risk factors included: age, gender, diabetes duration, HbA1c, LDL-C, HDl-C, TC/HDL-C ratio, ApoA1, ApoB, ApoB/ApoA1 ratio, and triglycerides were recorded. Risk factors for diabetic macular edema (DME) were also recorded.

Prevalence and relationship between diabetic retinopathy and nephropathy, and its risk factors in the North-East of Spain, a population-based study.

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of microangiopathy, and its risk factors in a population-based study of diabetes mellitus patients in the north-eastern area of Spain.

Methods: A population-based transversal study of 8,187 type 2 (83.37% of the diagnosed patients) and 488 type 1 (85.

The incorporation of family physicians in the assessment of diabetic retinopathy by non-mydriatic fundus camera.

Aims: To evaluate the inclusion of family physicians in screening for diabetic retinopathy.

Methods: We evaluated by non-mydriatic fundus camera 2779 diabetic patients. The family physicians made an initial evaluation of the fundus and pathological images were sent to a reference ophthalmologist.

Differences between the combination of the 25-gauge vitrectomy with phacoemulsification versus 20-gauge vitrectomy and phacofragmentation.

Introduction: In the present study we determine the differences observed between 25-gauge-vitrectomy combined with phacoemulsification, and the 20-gauge-vitrectomy combined with pars plana phacofragmentation.

Methods: A prospective study of a sample of 987 eyes of 661 patients randomly divided into two groups. 25-gauge-vitrectomy plus phacoemulsification included 486 eyes, and 20-gauge-vitrectomy plus phacofragmentation 501 eyes.

Management of nucleus loss into the vitreous: long term follow up in 63 patients.

Background: The aim of present study is to determine the long-term results of patients who undergo pars plana vitrectomy after retained nucleus into the vitreous.

Setting: Service of Ophthalmology, Hospital Universitari St Joan, Reus (Barcelona), Spain.

Methods: Retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series.

Nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy and macular edema progression after phacoemulsification: prospective study.

Purpose: To determine the incidence of diabetic retinopathy (DR) progression after phacoemulsification in patients with type II diabetes.

Setting: Service of Ophthalmology, University of Sant Joan, Barcelona, Spain.

Methods: This prospective study evaluated 132 patients with diabetes mellitus who had monocular phacoemulsification.