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Diabetes and your Eyesight
Follow the links below to find information about the effect of diabetes on your eyesight, including diabetic retinopathy.
Reviewed May 2011
14 Resources Found
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| Title: | Diabetes can affect your eyes - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Diabetes increases the risk of eye problems such as diabetic retinopathy, macular oedema, cataracts and glaucoma. |
| Date: | Oct 2011 |
| Title: | Diabetic eye disease: Proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
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| Publisher: | Virtual Medical Centre.com |
| Description: | Proliferative diabetic retinopathy is a sight-threatening eye disease that affects diabetics and sometimes people with metabolic abnormalities such as metabolic syndrome. It is characterised by neovascularisation in the eye, and fibrous growth in the retina and surrounding vitreous fluid. Early treatment can help prevent future vision loss, but not restore sight that has already been lost. |
| Date: | Jul 2011 |
| Title: | Optical coherence tomography measurement of central retinal thickness to diagnose diabetic macular oedema |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) is a thickening of the central part of the retina, the macula, that may affect people with diabetic retinopathy (DR). Diabetic retinopathy is a complication of diabetes in which the retina (a layer of tissue at the back of ... |
| Date: | May 2011 |
| Title: | Anti-vascular endothelial growth factor for prevention of postoperative vitreous cavity haemorrhage after vitrectomy for proliferative diabetic retinopathy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Postoperative vitreous cavity haemorrhage (POVCH) is a significant complication following vitrectomy (removal of the vitreous gel from the posterior chamber of the eye) for the treatment of proliferative retinopathy (the growth of abnormal blood vessels... |
| Date: | Mar 2011 |
| Title: | Diabetic retinopathy |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Diabetic retinopathy damages blood vessels inside the retina causing vision loss and blindness. People with diabetes are at risk of developing diabetic retinopathy. Symptoms only emerge in the later stage and include blurred vision, eye strain and headaches. Regular eye exams and good diabetes management reduce the risk of diabetic retinopathy. Laser treatment is often used. |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Antiangiogenic therapy for diabetic macular oedema |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Diabetic macular oedema (DMO) is a common complication of diabetic retinopathy. The retina at the macula thickens and this can cause gradual loss of central vision. Grid or focal laser photocoagulation is effective in treating DMO and has been used for ... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Diabetic retinopathy fact sheet |
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| Publisher: | Vision Australia |
| Description: | Diabetic retinopathy occurs when the tiny blood vessels inside the retina at the back of the eye are damaged. This can seriously affect vision and in some cases may even cause blindness. |
| Date: | Feb 2009 |
| Title: | Pentoxifylline for diabetic eye disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Diabetic retinopathy or eye disease is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. Nowadays its treatment is based on the use of laser therapy. Since this is a procedure which destroys important cells in the eye, drug approaches have been dev... |
| Date: | Jul 2007 |
| Title: | Intravitreal steroids for macular edema in people with diabetes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Macular edema, swelling of the center of the retina (the part of the eye responsible for our sharpest vision), is an important cause of poor vision in patients with diabetes. New forms of therapy are desirable because the current treatment including las... |
| Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Title: | Retinopathy in diabetes - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Diabetic retinopathy occurs when the small blood vessels in the retina become swollen or new tiny blood vessels grow that block the retina. |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Vitamin C and superoxide dismutase (SOD) for diabetic retinopathy |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Diabetic retinopathy or eye disease is the leading cause of blindness in developed countries. Laser therapy currently is the primary means in the treatment of diabetic retinopathy. It nevertheless is a procedure which destroys important cells in the eye... |
| Date: | Jun 2006 |
| Title: | Diabetes and your eyes - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | If you have diabetes, you are at risk of vision loss from diabetes retinopathy. |
| Date: | Jul 2003 |
| Title: | Diabetic retinopathy - myDr.com.au |
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| Publisher: | myDr |
| Description: | Diabetes affects the small vessels of the retina. Early diagnosis of the disease should lead to the prevention of serious vision loss. |
| Date: | Jul 2001 |
| Title: | Don't let diabetes steal your sight |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW) |
| Description: | Symptoms of diabetes aren't always obvious, and if it goes unnoticed and untreated, it can eventually lead to blindness. |
| Date: | Jul 1998 |
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