The level of diabetic retinopathy can be determined and the treatment plan for each level is different. Diabetic retinopathy can be detected at your routine yearly eye exam. In 1936, Kraupa 12 reported a splinter hemorrhage in a patient with a PVD, and subsequent reports have confirmed preretinal, splinter, or flame-shaped, dot, and blot hemorrhages together with subretinal hemorrhages can accompany a posterior vitreous detachment. Macular edema is a result of the swelling and fluid within the retinal layers in the macula (the part of the retina that gives the patient their vision straight ahead) that causes distortion of vision. Neovascularization is when new blood vessels grow in the retina as a result of a lack of oxygen. Feather- or flame-shaped hemorrhages with indistinct borders indicate that blood accumulates at the level of nerve fiber layer, reflecting the structure of the nerve fiber layers that run parallel to the retinal surface. Micro aneurysms are when the capillaries in retinal veins get larger as a result of the patient having diabetes. Hemorrhage from the superficial capillary plexus. 5 Retinal hemorrhages from accidental causes rarely reach the periphery, are usually confined to the. 3,4 In approximately two-thirds, RHs are too numerous to count, involving multiple retinal layers and covering nearly the entire retinal surface. Dot blot hemorrhages happen when the internal layers of the retina bleeds. Retinal hemorrhages occur in approximately 85 of AHT cases. The main signs of diabetic retinopathy are dot blot hemorrhages, micro aneurysms, neovascularization and macular edema. Diabetic Retinopathy has the potential for devastating vision loss. Diabetic Retinopathy is a condition that results when the patient has a systemic history of diabetes.

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