PMID: 8950584Nov 1, 1996Paper

Macular blood flow during pregnancy in patients with early diabetic retinopathy measured by blue-field entoptic simulation

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Für Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie
T HellstedtI Immonen

Abstract

To study macular capillary blood flow velocity during pregnancy and postpartum in diabetic women with minimal diabetic retinopathy. Macular capillary blood velocity was measured using the blue-field entoptic simulation technique in 17 type I diabetic pregnant women with minimal background retinopathy and 10 healthy pregnant women at the 12th and 32nd-36th weeks of pregnancy and 3 months after delivery. Red-free fundus photography was also performed at all visits. Capillary blood velocities at the 12th week of pregnancy were 1.09 +/- 0.37 mm/s in the diabetic women and 0.81 +/- 0.21 mm/s in the controls(P = 0.017), at the 32nd week 0.93 +/- 0.19 mm/s and 0.94 +/- 0.24 mm/s (P = 0.880), and 3 months postpartum 0.98 +/- 0.25 mm/s and 0.75 +/- 0.17 mm/s (P = 0.016), respectively. Analysis of variance indicated that there was a significant difference in leukocyte velocities during the course of pregnancy, with the flow being constantly elevated in diabetic women, but increasing by term in nondiabetic women (P = 0.039). Capillary flow velocity showed a statistically non-significant tendency to be higher in patients with HbA1c levels > 6.4%. Capillary flow velocity levels were not connected with changes in the number of microaneurysms...Continue Reading

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Jul 1, 1997·Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Für Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie·T HellstedtI Immonen
Jan 20, 2005·Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology = Albrecht Von Graefes Archiv Für Klinische Und Experimentelle Ophthalmologie·Galina DimitrovaSatoshi Kato
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