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Novel Retinal Imaging in Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Systemic Vascular Diseases by Daniel S.W. Ting; Lily Peng; Avinash V. Varadarajan; Tin Yan Alvin Liu is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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The eye is the only organ that allows direct visualization of the systemic neuro-vasculature using noninvasive imaging modalities, providing invaluable microstructural changes that often precede the macrovascular diseases such as stroke and ischaemic heart diseases. Using computer-aided analysis, wider retinal venules and narrower arterioles were found to be associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). For chronic kidney disease, narrower retinal arteriolar calibre, smaller retinal vascular fractal dimensions, arteriovenous nicking and opacification were significantly associated with lower estimated glomerular filtration rate, microalbuminuria and higher albumin/creatinine ratio. More recently, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) using deep learning was shown to have promising results in detecting age, gender, systolic blood pressure and smoking status from the fundus photographs. The same AI system also had comparable area under curve to the conventional risk calculators in predicting 5-year cardiovascular risks. Lastly, optical coherence tomography (OCT), with and without angiography, is also an effective imaging modality to evaluate the CVDs. Diabetic

Author

Daniel S.W. Ting; Lily Peng; Avinash V. Varadarajan; Tin Yan Alvin Liu

Publisher

S. Karger AG

Published

2019

Language

EN