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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
In the face of a rising global prevalence of diabetes and a younger age at diagnosis, a collaborative, proactive approach to diabetic macular oedema (DME) is required, the recent 2014 EURETINA congress was told.
Dr Marc Evans is Consultant Diabetologist at Llandough Hospital at the Uni-versity of Wales, and current Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Therapy. Addressing a symposium on DME during the 14th Annual Congress of EURETINA (the European Retina, Macula and Vitreous Society), he said collaboration between ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care must improve in order to ensure that patients at risk of sight loss received timely and appropriate treatment.
“As a specialty, we have already been working with our colleagues in nephrology, cardiology and stroke medicine, but we have not really been working particularly closely with our ophthalmology colleagues in terms of understanding the interface between the diseases and moving forward together,” Dr Evans said.
http://www.imt.ie/clinical/2014/12/evidence-proactive-approach-diabetic-macular-oedema-dme.html
Dr Marc Evans is Consultant Diabetologist at Llandough Hospital at the Uni-versity of Wales, and current Editor-in-Chief of Diabetes Therapy. Addressing a symposium on DME during the 14th Annual Congress of EURETINA (the European Retina, Macula and Vitreous Society), he said collaboration between ophthalmologists and other healthcare professionals involved in diabetes care must improve in order to ensure that patients at risk of sight loss received timely and appropriate treatment.
“As a specialty, we have already been working with our colleagues in nephrology, cardiology and stroke medicine, but we have not really been working particularly closely with our ophthalmology colleagues in terms of understanding the interface between the diseases and moving forward together,” Dr Evans said.
http://www.imt.ie/clinical/2014/12/evidence-proactive-approach-diabetic-macular-oedema-dme.html