Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Ranibizumab, a prescription drug commonly used to treat age-related vision loss, also reverses vision loss caused by diabetes among Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites, according to a new study led by investigators from the University of Southern California (USC) Eye Institute.
Diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema are the leading causes of vision loss in working-age adults in the United States, according to the National Eye Institute. Laser surgery is the standard treatment for advanced stages of the disease, characterized by blurred vision, but previous research has shown that only 30 percent of patients saw improvement in their vision.
"We found that ranibizumab can save the sight of thousands of working-age individuals suffering from diabetic eye disease, as standard treatments such as laser are not as effective," said Rohit Varma, M.D., M.P.H., director of the USC Eye Institute, professor and chair of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study's lead author.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-ranibizumab-reverses-vision-loss-diabetes.html
Diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema are the leading causes of vision loss in working-age adults in the United States, according to the National Eye Institute. Laser surgery is the standard treatment for advanced stages of the disease, characterized by blurred vision, but previous research has shown that only 30 percent of patients saw improvement in their vision.
"We found that ranibizumab can save the sight of thousands of working-age individuals suffering from diabetic eye disease, as standard treatments such as laser are not as effective," said Rohit Varma, M.D., M.P.H., director of the USC Eye Institute, professor and chair of ophthalmology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the study's lead author.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-02-ranibizumab-reverses-vision-loss-diabetes.html