Emerging Insights and Interventions for Diabetic Retinopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose of review

To introduce recent advances in the understanding of diabetic retinopathy and to summarize current and emerging strategies to treat this common and complex cause of vision loss.

Recent findings

Advances in retinal imaging and functional analysis indicate that retinal vascular and neural pathologies exist long before the development of clinically visible retinopathy. Such diagnostics could facilitate risk stratification and selective early intervention in high-risk patients. Antagonists of the vascular endothelial growth factor pathway effectively reduce vision loss in diabetes and promote regression of disease severity. Promising new strategies to treat diabetic retinopathy involve novel systemic diabetes therapy and ocular therapies that antagonize angioge

SUBMITTER: Honasoge A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7941754 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature