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The most usual diabetic eye disease is the Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery , which causes blindness in American adults due to the changes in blood vessels of the retina. A healthy retina, which is very sensitive to light seen at the back of the eye, is necessary for good vision. At first, no noticeable changes to your vision but over time this can worsen and cause loss of vision affecting both eyes.
Abnormal vessels in the blood can grow and outflow blood into the center of the eye resulting to a blurring vision called proliferative retinopathy. This is the fourth and most advanced stage of the disease. Liquid flows into the center of macula where there is an occurrence of straight-ahead vision. This makes a swelling of the macula resulting to a blurring vision called macular edema. If a person has diabetes and it progresses, diabetic retinopathy is likely to occur at any stage.
The specialist doctor can be able to give advice and recommendation whether a patient has a macular edema or any stage of Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery . To prevent vision loss, timely eye check-up and treatment is advised may it be experiencing symptoms or none. Thus, taking an eye exam more often is expected for diabetic retinopathy. Initially, what the eye perceives are a few specks of blood, or spots, "floating" in your vision. It is recommended to see the doctor as soon as possible, if spots occur and thus treatment is needed before any serious bleeding occurs.
No treatment is needed during the first three degrees of Diabetic Retinopathy Surgery but if you macular edema, better hurry to see a surgeon. Hence, diabetic people as always expected should maintain normal blood sugar levels, blood pressure and cholesterol. Laser surgery applies to patients with proliferative retinopathy. This procedure called scatter laser treatment that aids in shrinking down abnormal blood vessels.
About 1,000 to 2,000 laser burns placed in the retina away from the macula. This causes shrinking of the abnormal blood vessels. To complete the treatment, there are two or more sessions required to achieve the necessary high numbers of laser burns. The main purpose is to slowly burn the outflow of fluid and decrease amount of fluid seen in retina. Treatment through laser scattering can save the rest of your sight but can somewhat reduce color and night vision as well as side vision. Thus, further treatment is needed.
