Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin

We report two contrasting cases of diabetic retinopathy to illustrate vascular and retinal abnormalities in this condition. In the first case, mild diabetic retinopathy is diagnosed in an asymptomatic patient with diabetes mellitus of recent onset. The second patient has severe diabetic retinopathy,...

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Autores principales: Muñoz, Silvia, Sanz, Silvia, Planas, Núria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2008
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19030759
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2008.138
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spelling pubmed-58487682018-04-17 Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin Muñoz, Silvia Sanz, Silvia Planas, Núria ScientificWorldJournal Clinical Image We report two contrasting cases of diabetic retinopathy to illustrate vascular and retinal abnormalities in this condition. In the first case, mild diabetic retinopathy is diagnosed in an asymptomatic patient with diabetes mellitus of recent onset. The second patient has severe diabetic retinopathy, causing vision loss as a consequence of poor metabolic control. TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2008-11-22 /pmc/articles/PMC5848768/ /pubmed/19030759 http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2008.138 Text en Copyright © 2008 Silvia Muñoz et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title_full Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title_fullStr Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title_full_unstemmed Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title_short Diabetic Retinopathy: Two Faces of the Same Coin
title_sort diabetic retinopathy: two faces of the same coin
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848768/
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