15 Feb Neovascularization Causes 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....
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....
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?...
Lucentis is the second anti-VEGF drug FDA approved for the treatment of wet macular degeneration. It is an effective treatment for wet macular degeneration. The formulation differs from Macugen and Avastin as do the visual results....
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....
Despite recent advances with the use of intraocular injections, diabetic macular edema is still best treated with laser treatment....
An additional comment added to yesterday's post. I included it here and pasted in yesterday's post....
Successful case histories of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy....
Treatments for proliferative diabetic retinopathy are usually successful....