December 2, 2019

DIABETIC EYE AWARENESS

Guidelines that clinicians need to know for treating diabetic eye patients The most consistent means to lower the risk of developing complications from diabetes is for patients to maintain good glycemic control. The new current criteria for the diagnosis of diabetes now includes two abnormal test results from the same sample (fasting plasma glucose and A1C from the same sample). Learn more ADVERTISEMENT

What AAO attendees learned from a single session devoted to diabetes At Retina Subspecialty Day during the 2019 AAO meeting, presentations as varied as artificial intelligence, news from the Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Retina Network (DRCR.net), using OCT to predict visual outcomes, and how to manage patients with high-risk nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy without DME were among the highlights. Find out