(2023). Choroidal Changes in Diabetic Patients with Different Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 92(1), 6801-6806. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.318795
. "Choroidal Changes in Diabetic Patients with Different Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy". The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 92, 1, 2023, 6801-6806. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.318795
(2023). 'Choroidal Changes in Diabetic Patients with Different Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy', The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 92(1), pp. 6801-6806. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.318795
Choroidal Changes in Diabetic Patients with Different Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy. The Egyptian Journal of Hospital Medicine, 2023; 92(1): 6801-6806. doi: 10.21608/ejhm.2023.318795
Choroidal Changes in Diabetic Patients with Different Stages of Diabetic Retinopathy
Background: Choroidal and retinal vascular density (VD) can be evaluated without using any dye with optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) through motion contrasting. Objective: This study aimed to assess choroidal changes in solid versus diabetic-retinopathy (DR) patients with/without differed seriousness of DR. Methods: This controlled prospective non-randomized study was carried through the period from April 2021 to April 2022 in Al-Azhar University Hospital, Assiut branch. Results: Raise in Foveal Avascular Zone (FAZ) area in diabetic-retinopathy patients directly proportional to the retinopathy severity and decrease after pan-retinal-photo coagulation. While there is decrease in retinal, choroidal thickness and vessel density in diabetic-retinopathy patients directly proportional to the retinopathy severity and increase after pan retinal photo coagulation. Conclusion: OCTA identified as pre-clinical DR before the aspect of clinical retinopathy due to the prospect role in monitoring and quantifying retinal and choroidal vascular alterations of diabetes.