A screening programme for diabetic retinopathy

✍ Scribed by Heaven, C J ;Cansfield, J ;Shaw, K M

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 359 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1357-8170
• DOI: 10.1002/pdi.1960090203

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Retinal photography using a non‐mydriatic fundus camera has been proposed as a means of screening for diabetic retinopathy. We describe a screening programme which uses this technique and is run by liaison between a Diabetic Day Unit and Ophthalmology Department within a District General Hospital. A 10‐month period of screening is reported during which time 639 patients were photographed. Of these, 110 patients (17.2%) were referred for clinical eye examination of which 100 attended (15.6%), 27 patients (4.2%) subsequently underwent laser retinal photocoagulation. Of these, 22 received focal treatment and five required panretinal photocoagulation, nine cases (1.4%) were submitted to fundus fluorescein angiography. In 12 patients (1.9%), non‐diabetic ocular disease was detected.