title: [Ocular changes in dialysis patients].
abstract: The study analyzes the ocular aspects in patients receiving hemodialysis, in order to define the importance of the ophthalmological exam as prognosis and follow-up parameter. The prospective study includes 84 patients with renal insufficiency who received hemodialysis between 1994-1998. The ocular aspects and their connection with the dialysis and the basic disease are described and analyzed. The most important were the retinal vascular complications: hypertensive retinopathy, anterior optic ischaemic neuropathy, central retinal artery occlusion, diabetic retinopathy.
authors.affiliation: Spitalul Judeţean Braşov, Clinica Oftalmologică, Cluj-Napoca.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicoară
mesh_terms: D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D011379:Prognosis; D011446:Prospective Studies; D006435:Renal Dialysis / Q000009:adverse effects*