Off-label treatment in diabetic retinopathy
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Laser treatment in diabetic retinopathy.
Diabetic retinopathy is a leading cause of visual impairment and blindness in developed countries due to macular edema and proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). For both complications laser treatment may offer proven therapy: the Diabetic Retinopathy Study demonstrated that panretinal scatter photocoagulation reduces the risk of severe visual loss by >50% in eyes with high-risk characterist...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Revista de Ciências Médicas e Biológicas
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2236-5222,1677-5090
DOI: 10.9771/cmbio.v13i1.9024