Diabetic retinopathy laser surgery is an in-office treatment that involves making tiny burns in the eye with a beam of light. While it does not correct vision loss that has already occurred, ...

Laser treatments are used to slow and stop the progression of diabetic retinopathy. These procedures aren’t painful, but they do require numbing drops beforehand and mean enduring many bright ...

Focal laser photocoagulation is the most commonly used technique, which targets microaneurysms or tiny fluid-filled sacs on the retina. The treatment is usually performed in an outpatient setting ...

The longer a person has diabetes, the greater their risk of developing retinopathy. Before Minnie Ellis was diagnosed with diabetic retinopathy, she thought something caught on her eyelash. But it ...

Dr. Amit Gupta, MD, FACS, Ophthalmologist, talks about what to expect after having laser eye treatment for diabetic retinopathy. More for You Senate passes DC funding fix to prevent $1 billion in ...

In patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy, treatment with anti–vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) may offer a safer alternative to panretinal photocoagulation (PRP ...

My first-ever experience with retinopathy laser treatment was a breeze. No pain, no big deal. That’s what my eye specialist had told me going into the procedure, but I didn’t take his word for it.

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) angiography can reveal the microaneurysms that are early signs of diabetic retinopathy, but the software that would enable this is not yet widely available.

Just as bright light can illuminate the depths of a darkened room, researchers in Japan have found that blue light can be used to probe the depths of the eye and uncover areas affected by diabetic ...