Hamadneh Tariq, Aftab Saba, Sherali Nazleen, Vetrivel Suresh Rishwanth, Tsouklidis Nicholas, An MeiXia
Ophthalmology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, CHN.
Ophthalmology, California Institute of Behavioral Neurosciences & Psychology, Fairfield, USA.
Cureus. 2020 Oct 9;12(10):e10871. doi: 10.7759/cureus.10871.
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the long-term microvascular complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) and is considered a leading cause of vision loss worldwide. Chronic hyperglycemia can cause microvascular abnormalities to the retina and the choroid as well. The vascular tissue of the choroid supplies blood to the outer retina, photoreceptors, and retinal pigment epithelium. It plays an important role in the metabolic exchange of the retina. Many experimental studies reported that choroidal pathology in diabetic patients might play a role in developing DR. Choroidal thickness (CT) can reflect changes in the vasculature of the choroid and can be used to assess the vascularity of the choroid itself. CT differs between healthy and diseased states of the eye as well as with the aging process. This means that thinner or thicker choroid may indicate an ocular disease. Choroidal vascularity index (CVI) is also used as a marker for choroidal vascularity assessment and indirectly measures choroidal vascularity quantitatively. Many studies have been conducted to evaluate the choroid in many different ocular diseases. However, the results regarding CT in DM, especially in patients with DR, are various as thickened, thinned, or no changes. Thus, the status of the choroid in patients with DM with or without DR remains controversial between researchers. In this systematic review, we reviewed 18 articles that were done to investigate the relationship between structural choroidal changes in diabetic patients with different stages of DR, focusing on CT, CVI, and some other parameters evaluating choroidal changes.
糖尿病性视网膜病变(DR)是糖尿病(DM)的长期微血管并发症之一,被认为是全球视力丧失的主要原因。慢性高血糖会导致视网膜和脉络膜出现微血管异常。脉络膜的血管组织为视网膜外层、光感受器和视网膜色素上皮提供血液。它在视网膜的代谢交换中起重要作用。许多实验研究报告称,糖尿病患者的脉络膜病变可能在DR的发生中起作用。脉络膜厚度(CT)可以反映脉络膜血管系统的变化,可用于评估脉络膜本身的血管情况。CT在眼睛的健康状态和患病状态以及随着衰老过程中有所不同。这意味着脉络膜变薄或变厚可能表明患有眼部疾病。脉络膜血管指数(CVI)也被用作脉络膜血管评估的标志物,并间接定量测量脉络膜血管。已经进行了许多研究来评估多种不同眼部疾病中的脉络膜情况。然而,关于糖尿病患者,尤其是DR患者的CT结果各不相同,有增厚、变薄或无变化等情况。因此,糖尿病伴或不伴DR患者的脉络膜状态在研究人员之间仍存在争议。在本系统评价中,我们回顾了18篇旨在研究不同DR阶段糖尿病患者脉络膜结构变化之间关系的文章,重点关注CT、CVI以及其他一些评估脉络膜变化的参数。