You will be offered
diabetic eye screening at recommended intervals during pregnancy if you had diabetes before you got pregnant (pre-existing diabetes).
Everyone with diabetes is offered
diabetic eye screening, but screening is very important when you are pregnant because the risk of serious eye problems is greater in pregnancy.
Not exact matches
This
screening test is to check for signs of
diabetic eye disease, including
diabetic retinopathy.
2 Retinal
screening with a digital camera is used to spot signs of retinopathy, a
diabetic complication that occurs when blood vessels in the retina of the
eye become blocked, leaky or grow haphazardly.
Musa said the organisation was offering free
screening for patients with
diabetics, hypertension, sugar test, high blood pressure test, HIV test and people with
eye problems.
«This is only the second such report on cataract incidence in the UK's
diabetic patients since the 1980s and it further emphasises the importance of the NHS
Diabetic Eye Screening programme in early identification and treatment of
diabetic eye disease to prevent sight loss.
An Internet - based
screening approach performs well in identifying patients with treatable
diabetic eye disease, according to a study in Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.
Remote
screening tests have been developed to increase the number of
diabetic patients
screened for
eye disease.