A stepwise implementation of the Slovenian National Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Program - evaluation of the first 4.5 years.

Background: This retrospective cohort study aimed to assess the characteristics of patients enrolled in the national diabetic retinopathy (DR) screening program and evaluate the selected program's quality elements in the first five years after implementation.

Methods: Patients who underwent DR screening between February 2018 and June 2022 at the University Medical Centre Ljubljana were included. General patient characteristics (age, sex, type and therapy of diabetes mellitus (DM), duration of DM, blood HbA1c levels), best corrected visual acuity, stage of DR, presence of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy (STDR), and selected quality indicators (quality of photographs, re-screening interval, time to treatment) were recorded and evaluated.

Clinical and Histopathological Features of Gelsolin Amyloidosis Associated with a Novel Variant p.Glu580Lys.

Gelsolin amyloidosis typically presents with corneal lattice dystrophy and is most frequently associated with pathogenic variant p.Asp214Asn. Here we report clinical and histopathological features of gelsolin amyloidosis associated with a novel variant p.