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Molecular and Multimodal Retinal Imaging Findings in a Multicentric Portuguese ...

Introduction Our purpose was to describe the molecular and multimodal retinal imaging findings in a cohort of Portuguese patients with a clinical diagnosis of Stargardt Disease (STGD1).   Methods Multicenter, cross sectional cohort study of consecutive patients with a clinical diagnosis of STGD1, referred from six Portuguese centers. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmological examination complemented by...

Challenges, facilitators and barriers to the adoption and use of a web-based na...

Rare disease registries increase research accessibility for patients, while providing clinicians/investigators with a coherent data ecosystem necessary to boost research and patient care. The IRD-PT registry is a national, web-based, interoperable registry for inherited retinal degenerations (IRDs) designed to generate scientific knowledge and collect high-quality data on the epidemiology, genomic landscape and...

An uncommon cold of the retina

A 39-year-old woman with progressive loss of vision left eye was referred for evaluation. Notably, she had been diagnosed with COVID-19 two weeks beforehand. Examination and ancillary testing confirmed atypical multifocal evanescent white dot syndrome. Possible other masquerades were excluded. A few weeks later, visual acuity improved in the left eye and symptoms resolved together with normalization of ancillar...

Optical coherence tomography in proliferative diabetic retinopathy

UNILATERAL TRANSIENT VISION LOSS FOLLOWING BILATERAL INTRAVITREAL OCRIPLASMIN –...

Abstract Background: Ocriplasmin is a serine protease approved for the treatment of symptomatic vitreomacular traction (VMT). Post-marketing experience has revealed safety concerns. Materials and Methods: Retrospective case report. Clinical and surgical data were analyzed.  Results: We report a case of intraindividual response to bilateral ocriplasmin injection in a 70 year-old female patient with symptomatic v...

COMPARAÇÃO DA DIFERENCIAÇÃO OFTALMOLÓGICA NO RASTREIO DA RETINOPATIA DIABÉTICA

Objetivo: Comparar a concordância na classificação da retinopatia diabética (RD) entre observadores com diferentes níveis de diferenciação oftalmológica. Métodos: Estudo prospetivo de 122 indivíduos diabéticos avaliados em rastreio de RD durante 6 semanas com retinografia não-midriática 45º com aquisição de 2 campos (centrados no disco ótico e mácula). A classificação incluiu o grau de retinopatia (R– 0: ausent...

Paracentral Acute Middle Maculopathy: a novel clinical finding

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Diabetic Eye Disease

Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease characterized by sustained hyperglycemia leading to macro and microvascular complications. The eye is one of the main organs affected by this disease, being diabetic retinopathy the most well-known microvascular complication and the leading cause of blindness in the working age population. However, diabetic ocular disease is not only characterized by diabetic ret...