Retinal vessel morphology in rheumatoid arthritis: Association with systemic inflammation, subclinical atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular risk.
Panagiota AnyfantiAreti TriantafyllouEugenia GkaliagkousiNikolaos KoletsosGeorgios AthanasopoulosXenophon ZabulisVasiliki GalanopoulouSpyros AslanidisStella DoumaPublished in: Microcirculation (New York, N.Y. : 1994) (2018)
Our study shows altered retinal microvascular morphology in RA patients. Inflammation appears as the biological link for the observed association between retinal microvascular abnormalities and subclinical atherosclerosis. Retinal arteriolar narrowing might play its own role in cardiovascular risk prediction in RA.
Keyphrases
- optical coherence tomography
- rheumatoid arthritis
- diabetic retinopathy
- optic nerve
- disease activity
- end stage renal disease
- cardiovascular disease
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- oxidative stress
- ankylosing spondylitis
- chronic kidney disease
- type diabetes
- interstitial lung disease
- systemic lupus erythematosus
- patient reported