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Diabetic Reinopathy - Coggle Diagram
Diabetic Reinopathy
Treatment
just keep track of how your eyes are doing.
Injections
anti-VEGF drugs can slow down or reverse
corticosteroids
Laser treatment
lasers to make the blood vessels shrink and stop leaking
Eye surgery
vitrectomy
Symptomes
Early stage
No syptomes
May have problem seeing things far away
Later stages
blood vessels in the retina start to bleed into the vitreous
dark, floating spots or streaks that look like cobwebs
How doctors check
dilated eye exam.
dilate (widen) your pupil and then check your eyes for diabetic retinopathy and other eye problems
severe diabetic retinopathy
a fluorescein angiogram
Causes
high blood sugar due to diabetes
too much sugar in your blood can damage your retina
sugar in your blood causes changes to the tiny blood vessels that go to your retina.
harder for the blood to flow
Blocked vessels
New blood vessels fo not work well
Leak
Bleed
Diabetes damages blood vessels all over the body