The eyes have it
“Diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke risk, leukemia and a certain kind of brain tumor all can leave clues inside the eye.
The eye is the ‘only place in the body where you can see blood vessels, without cutting,’ notes Mark Lee, a Las Vegas optometrist.”
How true – the eyes can certainly be a window to many diseases. Take diabetes for instance. Here is a fundoscopic exam of a normal eye:
In proliferative diabetic retinopathy, an eye complication of diabetes, one can see a proliferative growth of abnormal new blood vessels:
