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Oct Based Eye Scans Offer Non-Invasive Monitoring of Kidney Disease
- skmurphy 3y agoSummary: The transparency of ocular media offers a unique opportunity for direct visualisation of the microvascular circulation, and recent advances in optical coherence tomography (OCT) have enabled high-resolution identification of specific retinal cell layers, as well as deeper structures such as the choroid, in a way only previously possible histologically. In a study published in Nature Communications (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43125-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43125-1), the researchers investigated the potential of OCT in a series of prospective studies of patients with pre-dialysis CKD (including those with a kidney transplant), patients with kidney failure undergoing kidney transplantation, living kidney donors, and healthy volunteers, involving almost 300 participants overall.