Sickle cell retinopathy associated with retinal thinning

WAILEA, Hawaii – Spectral domain optical coherence tomography may be used to gauge retinal anatomic changes in eyes with sickle cell retinopathy, a speaker said here.“If you feel you have a sickle cell patient and you want to determine how severe it is, one of the things that is useful is to look at the OCT and see if there is retinal thinning present,”Jennifer I. Lim, MD, said at Retina 2015. “Sixty percent of your sickle cell patients are going to have this, and most of the time they’re going (Read more...)

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