17 Mar Iluvien: New Drug for Diabetic Macular Edema
Iluvien, an injectable drug delivery system, gets one step closer to be the first drug FDA approved for the treatment of diabetic macular edema....
Iluvien, an injectable drug delivery system, gets one step closer to be the first drug FDA approved for the treatment of diabetic macular edema....
Diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration can both cause legal blindness. Complete blindness is caused only by diabetic retionpathy. Report either to the IRS....
Knowing what to look for is essential to making a correct medical diagnosis. Retinal disease, such as ARMD and diabetes is easy to diagnose as we can also "see" the eye....
The timing of cataract surgery is generally a personal choice depending upon your level of tolerance for blurry vision. In cases of retinal disease, such as diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration, there are few other concerns that may affect the timing of surgery....
Getting your eyes dilated is an important part of a complete eye exam. It is the only way to directly examine a cataract, optic nerve or retina. Patients that have diabetic retinopathy or macular degeneration should always expect to have a dilated exam....
There are two types of blindness; legal blindness and complete blindness. Diabetic retinopathy can cause both types of blindness, while macular degeneration causes only legal blindness....
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....
Decreased vision can be from advancing retinal disease. It can also be from dry eye. Patients with retinal disease can have dry eye, too, but it may be hard for your doctor to distinguish one from the other....
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....