Short-Term Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Best-Corrected Distance Visual Acuity and Diabetic Retinopathy Progression

Richardson, Patrick; Hulpus, Adela; Idris, Iskandar

Abstract

© 2018, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. The immediate impact of rapid glucose lowering induced by bariatric surgery on diabetic retinopathy (DR) progression remains unclear. We present 3-year changes in the best-corrected visual acuity and DR grade in a retrospective observational study of 32 morbidly obese patients (64 eyes) who underwent Roux-en-Y-gastric bypass surgery. We found that despite overall benefits in vision, there was an initial progression from no retinopathy to background retinopathy in 18.9% and 21.7% at years 1 and 2 respectively. Patients with pre-proliferative DR at baseline were at increased risk of developing sight-threatening DR. We recommend that patients with diabetes undergoing bariatric surgery have a baseline visual acuity, macular optical coherent tomography and diabetic retinopathy grading from wide-field digital imaging to identify those at risk of sight-threatening diabetic retinopathy.

Citation

Richardson, P., Hulpus, A., & Idris, I. (2018). Short-Term Impact of Bariatric Surgery on Best-Corrected Distance Visual Acuity and Diabetic Retinopathy Progression. Obesity Surgery, 28(11), 3711-3713. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-018-3445-z

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 15, 2018
• Online Publication Date: Sep 1, 2018
• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2018
• Deposit Date: Sep 6, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 2, 2019
• Journal: Obesity Surgery
• Print ISSN: 0960-8923
• Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 11
• Pages: 3711-3713
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-018-3445-z
• Keywords: Surgery; Nutrition and Dietetics; Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1063691
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11695-018-3445-z