Impact of treatment of diabetic macular edema on visual impairment in people with diabetes mellitus in India

Conclusion: Only about a third of treated DME patients complete one year follow up in India. Most patients receive suboptimal number of treatments. Treated DME cases largely show better anatomical outcome but not a better functional outcome.

Source: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology - February 17, 2021 Category: Opthalmology Authors: Sucheta Kulkarni Rajalakshmi Ramachandran Sobha Sivaprasad Padmaja Kumari Rani Umesh C Behera TP Vignesh Gajendra Chawla Manisha Agarwal Sheena Liz Mani Kim Ramasamy Rajiv Raman Source Type: research