Degeneration of intramural pericytes in diabetic retinopathy.
Retinal pericyte degeneration, a usual finding in diabetic retinopathy, has been shown to be a change probably peculiar to the retina rather than part of a more widespread angiopathy. Thus in a patient with diabetic retinopathy the characteristic eosinophilic degeneration of the pericyte nuclei ceased at the optic disc and could not be found in vessels of the optic nerves and brain.
D000368:Aged; D001485:Basement Membrane / Q000473:pathology; D001921:Brain / Q000473:pathology; D002196:Capillaries / Q000473:pathology; D002467:Cell Nucleus; D003925:Diabetic Angiopathies / Q000473:pathology; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000473:pathology*; D004804:Eosinophils; D005260:Female; D005654:Fundus Oculi / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009900:Optic Nerve / Q000473:pathology; D012160:Retina / Q000473:pathology; D012171:Retinal Vessels / Q000473:pathology*