Non-mydriatic camera for diabetic retinopathy screening in a primary health care center

Session Details

Session Title: Presented Poster Session: Imaging

Venue: Poster Village: Pod 3

First Author: : O.Pujol SPAIN

Co Author(s): :    P. Garcia                       

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To evaluate the prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (RD) thorugh the screening of a non midriatic camera in a catalan primary health care.

Setting:

Sant Martí primary health care center-Parc de Salut Mar. Barcelona. Spain.

Methods:

this is a cross-sectional study. Were included patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) types 1 and 2 that were screened with a non midriatic camera. A nursing assistant was the person who toke the retinograph and intraocular pressure. A trained family doctor was who evaluated the images. Retinography was classified as: no RD, mild non-proliferative RD, moderate non-proliferative RD, severe non-proliferative RD and proliferative RD.

Results:

1344 patients were screened between september 2016 to june 2017. 19.4% of the patients presented any type of DM. 40% of those had mild non –proliferative RD, 8% presented moderate non-proliferative RD and 8% has severe non-proliferatve RD. 33% of the patients with any type of RD had DM for more than 15 years. 49% of the patients with RD were treated with insulin.

Conclusions:

our results show that non-midriatic camera is usefull for RD screening. And, moreover allowed descreased the number of visits to the opthalmology as fron de 1344 patients, only 261 patients needed an ophtalmology visit.

Financial Disclosure:

None