Peripheral retinal vasculature in normal Jamaican children.
AUTOR(ES)
Penman, A
RESUMO
A prospective study of the peripheral retinal vasculature in a Jamaican cohort of subjects with sickle cell disease has been in progress over a period of 12 years using fluorescein angiography. Various vascular patterns were identified but their significance was unclear since no comparable records were available in subjects of a similar age with normal (AA) haemoglobin genotype. Fluorescein retinal angioscopy and angiography have been performed in 76 haemoglobin AA controls participating in the cohort study. The peripheral retinal capillary bed could be seen and photographed in a limited portion of the temporal peripheral fundus in a majority of this group, and there was considerable variation in the vascular pattern which could be characterised. These observations allow deviations from normal to be identified in the retinal vasculature in subjects with sickle cell disease.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=504885Documentos Relacionados
- Non-corneal electroretinogram. Parameters in normal children.
- Studies on innocent praecordial vibratory murmurs in children. I. Systolic time intervals and pulse wave transmission times in normal children.
- Effect of growth hormone on short normal children.
- Circadian rhythm of peak expiratory flow in asthmatic and normal children.
- Predicted normal values for maximal respiratory pressures in caucasian adults and children.
