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DVA: Publication on the eye impairment risks of diabetics
The diabetology department of Jena university under Prof. Dr. Müller, together with the ophthalmological hospital of Jena university, has for one year been doing research in Diabetes mellitus in connection with the functionality of the ocular vessels. For this research work, the scientists use the DVA system.
The Dynamic Vessel Analyzer (DVA) is the first device throughout the world which makes analysis of important vascular functions in the area of microcirculation in the retina by simple, non-invasive method. In a study with 293 diabetic patients, the excellent researchers in Jena proved that Diabetes mellitus can be detected by typical changes at the small blood vessels and their functions.
With this dynamic retinal vessel analysis, we now measure a function and not only the destruction of the vessel after it has occurred", Müller explains the advantages of this method. This makes genuine early detection possible - even before the eye is actually damaged."
Diabetic patients with and without retinopathy and healthy persons are examined. Changes of the vascular reactions were found in all retinopathy patients. The decisive fact, however is the following: Vascual reaction disorders can be detected in diabetics without manifest eye problems", ophthalmologist Dr. Jens Dawczynski underlines. We now have to put these patients in a risk group that could develop retinopathy".
The medical experts in Jena also identify diseases of the cardiovascular system and the kidneys as potential application areas for the vessel system of this Thuringian firm.
The first publication of the planned longitudinal analysis with 1000 diabetic patients has already been published by physician A. Mandecka and the other involved medical experts and will be printed in the December issue of the journal of the American Diabetes Association, "Diabetes Care". It is already available in the internet.
