Treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Heritability of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

OBJECTIVE Diabetic nephropathy clusters in families, suggesting that genetic factors play a role in its pathogenesis. We investigated whether similar clustering exists for proliferative retinopathy in families with two or more siblings with type 1 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The FinnDiane Study has characterized 20% (4,800 patients) of adults with type 1 diabetes in Finland. In 188 ...

External diathermy treatment of proliferative diabetic retinopathy with vitreous haemorrhage.

Sixty-six cases of advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy were treated by external diathermy. The eyes had extensive fibrovascular proliferations growing into the vitreous. All had some blood, recent and old, in the vitreous. The vitreous was extremely degenerated and retracted. All the patients had inadequate diabetic control. More than half were hypertensive, with reasonable medical cont...

Intravitreal Bevacizumab in the Surgical Treatment of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

T R E ATM E N T O F PD R In 2005, after our initial encouraging experience with intravitreal bevacizumab for age-related macular degeneration, I began to use it in patients with rubeosis. The first patient I treated presented with bilateral neovascularization, rubeosis in the right eye, and partial vitreous hemorrhage in the left eye.1 I applied panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) for the left ey...

Risk Factors for High-Risk Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Severe Visual Loss: Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy

RESULTS. The baseline characteristics identified as risk factors for high-risk PDR were increased severity of retinopathy, decreased visual acuity (or increased extent of macular edema), higher glycosylated hemoglobin, history of diabetic neuropathy, lower hematocrit, elevated triglycerides, lower serum albumin, and, in persons with mild to moderate nonproliferative retinopathy, younger age (or...