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Does fluorescein angiography detect diabetic retinopathy in diabetic children during puberty?
Does fluorescein angiography detect diabetic retinopathy in diabetic children during puberty?
Puberty is a probable determining factor influencing the onset of diabetic retinopathy in children.
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FA may aid DR detection during puberty in diabetic youth; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
The present study is a fluorescein angiographic follow-up of 60 diabetic children (aged 12 -- 16 years). At the follow-up, with two-thirds of the children in pubescence, fluorescein angiography revealed diabetic retinopathy in 10 (17%) of the children. The results indicate puberty as a probable determining factor influencing the onset of the diabetic retinopathy.
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Frost-Larsen et al. (1980) studied this question.
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