In this episode of the What the Fundus Podcast, we discuss the role pericytes potentially play in the damage that occurs from glaucoma. The article we reference in this podcast is Pericyte Dysfunction and Loss of Interpericyte Tunneling Nanotubes Promote Neurovascular Deficits in Glaucoma.
A paper published on August 17, 2021 in Diabetalogia, “Association of maternal diabetes during pregnancy with high refractive error in offspring: a nationwide population-based cohort study” analyzed over 2 million people born between 1977 and 2016. It found that these people had a 39% increased risk of having high refractive errors of all types — […]