EDITORIAL
Diabetes
Detecting ocular-visual function changes in diabetes
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Correspondence to:
Dr Carol A Westall
Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, Toronto, M5G 1X8, Canada; carol.westall@sickkids.ca
It is essential for the chosen biomarkers to assess accurately ocular function as well as reproducible change
Keywords: ocular-visual function; diabetes; children
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In the 21st century we are nearing the time when treatment of ocular disease is becoming a reality. As such, the ability to monitor disease progression and/or disease recovery is as important as the ability to detect disease related ocular change. Minimising measurement variability is intrinsic to monitoring accurately any chosen ocular-visual biomarker that best represents disease progression over time. This is the topic of the paper by Gilmore and co-workers in this issue of BJO (p 1462). These authors have described the measurement variability of the short wavelength (SW) automated perimetry (SWAP) in patients with diabetes. SWAP has been used primarily to detect vision loss and to monitor progressive visual field loss in glaucoma.1 SWAP is more sensitive in detecting glaucomatous changes than standard white on white (WW) perimetry.2 Gilmore and co-workers used the psychophysical frequency of seeing analysis as a measure of within examination variability, where
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- Frequency of seeing characteristics of the short wavelength sensitive visual pathway in clinically normal subjects and diabetic patients with focal sensitivity loss
- E D Gilmore, C Hudson, R K Nrusimhadevara, and P T Harvey
Br. J. Ophthalmol. 2005 89: 1462-1467.[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
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