Evaluations of diabetic retinopathy severity appeared comparable with ultra-widefield and 7-field imaging, suggesting ultra-widefield imaging can be used in future longitudinal studies without bias, according to a cross-sectional study.
“Over the combined 38-year duration of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial/Epidemiology of Diabetes Interventions and Complications study (DCCT/EDIC), there have been major advances in the technology used to acquire retinal images,” Lloyd Paul Aiello, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School and director of the Beetham