Can Laser Improve Vision Problems Due To Diabetic Retinopathy?
Thanks for your query.
Established procedure for diabetic retinopathy is to have flourocine angiography followed by laser photocoagulation. What basically happens is that due to ischemia there is new vessel formation. These new vessels are immature with deficient walls so they leak. This requires angiography to identify the leaking spots and to burn them with laser.
Ranibizumab (lucantis) is an intra vitreal injection that we give to control this new vessel proliferation. This again is to follow a flourocine angiography to show the leakage. The injection is to be given only if there is leakage from the new vessels.
This management is a perpetual process like control of diabetes and managing these complications as and when these arise. That is the reason for you have to have regular follow up to catch these complications at an early stage.
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