13 Oct Diabetes – A Disease of Blood Vessels, Especially in the Eye
Diabetes can be approached as a disease that affects blood vessels. This is true in diabetic peripheral neuropathy, kidney disease and diabetic retinopathy....
Diabetes can be approached as a disease that affects blood vessels. This is true in diabetic peripheral neuropathy, kidney disease and diabetic retinopathy....
Severe vision loss in patients with diabetes has declined dramatically over the past 25 years....
Definitions of the term "blindness." Macular Degeneration and Diabetic Retinopathy can cause legal blindness and usually not complete blindness....
The term "macular" describes several conditions that may affect the macula. It, by itself, is not a disease. ...
Intraocular drug delivery systems are developing to treat diabetic macular edema. Sustained release systems offer hope of long term treatment, compliance and little or no side effects....
New floaters can be from a posterior vitreous detachment (PVD), retinal tear or diabetic retinopathy. ...
Successful case histories of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy....
How social media may build a medical practice and lead to improvements in healthcare....
Part 2 of the comparison between these two potentially blinding diseases. Few persons have either disease....
Patients with diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration share many attributes, including the fact that neither is usually debilitating. ...