The OCT is a recent diagnostic tool for non-invasive tissue examination, which has
been used in clinical practice since 1995. The OCT is similar to the ultrasonic tomography
in that it relies on optical waves rather than ultrasound ones. The abilit
y to obtain highcontrast
images of the retina in a non-invasive manner has made this examination very
important in retinal diseases associated with macula..
Therefore, our objective is to study the statistical values of the measurements of the
macular thickness using Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and the relationship of
each value to age, sex, medication ,duration of diabetes ,and the visual acuity in diabetic
eyes. Therefore, the accurate measurement of the macular thickness is important to follow
up disease progression, evaluate treatment and accurately diagnose lesions of visual
acuity.
The thickness of the macula in the left and right eye was thicker in males than in
females. We find out that the visual ability declines with age. For both left and right eyes,
the thickness of the macula increases with age and the content of the macula correlates
with its thickness and the period of the disease. There are no statistically significant
differences of the thicknesses with different treatment types (insulin or pills),so we notice a
correlation between the visual acuity and the thickness of the macula in both eyes ,so that
the higher the thickness of the macula in diabetic patients ,the lower the visual acuity . In
the study of the different parts of the macula, the internal part is thicker than the external
part and the nasal part is thicker than the different parts of the macula, and the nasointernal
part is the thickest.
The purpose of the research is to identify the level of the
meaning of life and the psychological Hardiness of the research
sample and identify the correlation between the meaning of life and
psychological Hardiness, and to know the differences between the
average scores of the patients of the research sample on the scale of
life meaning and psychological Hardiness according to the variable
years of infection.