Clinical and Anatomical Features of the Central Part of the Retina in Diabetic Macular Edema

One of the most significant manifestations of diabetes is retinal damage in the form of diabetic macular edema (DME), leading to inevitable loss of vision and disability of patients of the working age [1]. Early diagnostics allows identifying the disease at an early stage of development and reducing the risk of irreversible loss of vision. Currently, one of the main ways of retinal lesions visualization [2] and DME is optical coherence tomography (OCT) enabling to assess the thickness and structure of the retina [3-5]. Several authors established that a macular pigment characterizing the state of the outer layers of the retina and, in particular, the state of photoreceptors has a direct effect on the light sensitivity of the retina [6]. Regular and objective measurement of macular pigment optical density (MPOD) is justified method of research in pathology of the central part of the retina [7].