Diabetic retinopathy

Diabetes is a destructive disease, especially when it is undiagnosed, untreated, or unmanaged. Vision loss and blindness can happen if a diabetic does not take action to keep glucose levels under control. Understanding how diabetes affect the retina is critical for diabetics. The Damage that Diabetes Does After developing diabetes, the body loses its ability to regulate glucose levels in the blood stream. Normally, insulin helps with glucose regulation. With Type 1 diabetes, the pancreas…

evaluation criteria to assess the quality of care provided to the diabetic population by primary care…

called diabetic ketoacidosis (Brooker). This then acts as an osmotic diuretic and…

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to help patients monitor their diabetes. In order to explain the how much more significant an A1C test is in comparison with the other test that are mentioned in this report it is also important to explain what the results from an A1C test allows diabetic patients to monitors. Having test like the A1C test done is only part of monitoring a patient’s diabetes. The…

amount that was decrased. Retinopathy is more likely to occur in a diabetic patient since glucose problems will be present. In the case of a patient with Type 1 diabetes, a patient will have trouble producing insulin therefore glucose levels would be high when unregulated. Although a patient with Type 2 will be able to produce insulin, they will have trouble processing glucose and will have high sugar levels. The high glucose levels are the source that will lead to retinopathy in these types of…

probability of developing diabetic complication such as macrovascular and microvascular then complication increase mortality and morbidity. In microvascular includes diabetic nephropathy, diabetic retinopathy and diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic neuropathy is one of the most common chronic complication of diabetes mellitus that develops in about 50% of people with diabetes. Globally, as well as in India, the number of patients with diabetic neuropathy is rapidly increasing. Diabetic neuropathy is…

Summary The majority of diseases that cause substantial and irreversible vision loss resulting from pathologic ocular neovascularization such as age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinopathy of prematurity and ocular tumours. Poor drug delivery to lesions in patient’s eyes is a major obstacle to the treatment. Nanotechnology provides novel opportunities to overcome the limitations of conventional drug delivery systems to reach the back of the eye through fabrication of…

patient’s mother said a few years earlier the daughter had gone to the doctors and was informed she should be taking insulin, but due to the cost, they were unable to afford it. Without insulin, chronic complications such as, atherosclerosis, retinopathy, diabetic nephropathy, nerve damage, and gangrene can occur. With the following symptoms it is suspected that she has type 1 diabetes mellitus. With the circumstances, she is asked to take a urine test and a blood test. Both the tests have…

Control Many seniors have high blood pressure, which can damage the blood vessels in the retina of the eye. Left untreated, the damaged blood vessels can leak and cause the macula to swell. This condition is known as hypertensive retinopathy. Hypertensive retinopathy can cause vision problems and blindness. Encourage your loved one to manage their blood pressure by maintaining a healthy weight, decreasing the amount of salt in their diet and taking any prescribed blood pressure medications. 2…