What is it about?
This study included diabetic patients above the age of 40 years who have attended outpatient department of ophthalmology and diabetic clinic under the department of internal medicine in a tertiary care hospital in West Bengal and their age- and sex-matched control group from June 2017 to May 2018. All patients had gone through proper history taking, refraction, intraocular pressure measurement, external ocular examination, slit-lamp biomicroscopy, 90D examination, indirect ophthalmoscopy, and visual evoked potential (VEP).
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Why is it important?
Our study shows that VEP changes occur in diabetes patients before the appearance of microaneurysm.
Perspectives
DR is the most common and dreadful ocular complication of DM. There are more and more evidences coming out that retinopathy is not the first eye changes affecting the eye. It is the neurodegeneration of the retina and the VEP changes that occur before the appearance of microaneurysms. Our study also establishes this fact.
Dr Sukanta Sen
ICARE Institute of Medical Sciences & Research
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This page is a summary of: Evaluation of visual evoked potential as a predictive marker for diabetic neuropathy, TNOA Journal of Ophthalmic Science and Research, January 2019, Medknow,
DOI: 10.4103/tjosr.tjosr_83_19.
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