Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Graves’ ophthalmopathy (GO) may develop nearly 25–50% in Graves’ Disease (GD). Clinical manifestations of GO are caused by the over compression of orbital tissues within the restricted orbital bone cavity. Impaired ocular blood flow may disrupt the retinal microstructure and functions. Early recognition of retinal and choroidal changes may alert the physicians for preventing ocular complications of GO. In this study we aimed to investigate the macu...

Purpose: To determine the changes of the choroidal thickness (CT) in diabetes mellitus (DM) type 1 patients without clinical diabetic retinopathy (DR).Methods: We evaulated 50 patients with DM type 1 (50 eyes) and 50 healthy controls (50 eyes) in İzmir Military Hospital from January 2012, through January 2013. DR status was evaluated by indirect fundoscopy and included the study if they have no clinical diabetic retinopathy. Age, gender, duration s...