Ocular changes in dialysis patients

Popa, M.; Nicoară, S.

Oftalmologia 50(1): 65-67

2000


ISSN/ISBN: 1220-0875
PMID: 11021109
Document Number: 518565
The study analyzes the ocular aspects in patients receiving hemodialysis, in order to define the importance of the ophthalmological exam as prognosis and follow-up parameter. The prospective study includes 84 patients with renal insufficiency who received hemodialysis between 1994-1998. The ocular aspects and their connection with the dialysis and the basic disease are described and analyzed. The most important were the retinal vascular complications: hypertensive retinopathy, anterior optic ischaemic neuropathy, central retinal artery occlusion, diabetic retinopathy.

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