Diabetic Retinopathy: What You Should Know
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From the National Eye Institute. Helps people and their families better understand the disease.
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Information about diabetic retinopathy and the cause and symptoms of this progressive eye disease. Diagnosis and types of treatment are described.
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Details about the symptoms, detection, prevention, and treatment.
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A consumer guide to Diabetic Retinopathy.
What is Diabetic Retinopathy?
Diabetic Retinopathy is yet another problem faced with those people who have diabetes. Diabetes damages tiny blood vessels inside the retina causing degradation. As diabetic retinopathy becomes more severe, new blood vessels begin to form on the retina that could break
Information on diabetic eye disease. Covers preproliferative diabetic retinopathy, proliferative diabetic retinopathy, and background diabetic retinopathy.
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Nonproliferative (or Background) diabetic retinopathy is primarily a disease of retinal blood vessels. It is the result of two major processes affecting the retinal blood vessels: vessel closure and abnormal vessel permeability.
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PRE-PROLIFERATIVE DIABETIC RETINOPATHY
Non-proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy
Pre-proliferative (or Background) diabetic retinopathy is
primarily a disease