A Clinical Study of Diabetic Retinopathy

Abstract

A clinical study of diabetic retinopathy was conducted from March- May 2002 to diagnose a patient’s diabetic retinopathy level and identify eyes of proliferative diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy so that these patients could get appropriate and timely laser photocoagulation surgery and other surgical modalities to reduce the risk of visual loss. This study shows that out of 248 diabetic patients examined, 45.9% patients had retinal changes. The potential candidates for panretinal and focal laser treatment were the patients with very severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) (3.5%), early proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) or high-risk PDR (3.5%), and maculopathy (8.8%). Key Words: Diabetic retinopathy, Laser photocoagulation surgery and vitrectomy Surgery.