04 May Retinal Ischemia: Supply vs. Demand
Diabetic retinopathy causes the retina to lose blood supply. A chain events causes liberation of VEGF and can lead to blindness....
Diabetic retinopathy causes the retina to lose blood supply. A chain events causes liberation of VEGF and can lead to blindness....
Distortion is usually caused by retinal disease, but not necessarily from macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy. There are other causes and most are treatable....
Neovascularization develops in both macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy. It is the neovascular tissue, or abnormal blood vessels, that causes blindness and is mediated by VEGF....
Getting drugs into the inside of the eye is very hard. Intraocular injections have become an effective way to deliver medications to the inside of the eye and bypass the blood brain barrier to treat retinal disease....
Pan-retinal laser photocoagulation has been the gold-standard treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Avastin injections may become a safer, better alternative to retinal laser treatment to prevent blindness....
I had a patient with sudden loss of vision. He has diabetes and I diagnosed a vitreous hemorrhage. What are the causes and possible treatments?...
Vascular endothelial growth factor is implicated to cause loss of vision in both diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration. Review of how VEGF works and effect treatments for diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration....
Manufacturers of Pycnogenol, a dietary supplement, report on the vision improvements in patients with early diabetic retinopathy. ...
Laser treatment for diabetic macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy has been the mainstay for several decades. Both are described and illustrated....
Despite recent advances with the use of intraocular injections, diabetic macular edema is still best treated with laser treatment....