Diabetic retinopathy. The role of outpatient care in early diagnosis. Treatment. Prognoses

For many years, diabetes mellitus (DM) remains a socially significant disease leading to disability and mortality due to the accompanying micro- and macrovascular complications. Diabetic retinopathy is one of the most dangerous complications of DM, leading to the progressive visual acuity reduction up to its lost. In patients with DM and its complication - retinopathy is often detected at the time of making the primary diagnosis at the level of outpatient care, which is primary and key in the early diagnosis and detection of eye diseases at an early stage. Timely detection and treatment of diabetic retinopathy can provide with the achieving a long period of normal functioning of the eye.

diabetes mellitus, diabetic retinopathy, non-proliferative, preproliferative form, proliferative forms, outpatient care, principles of managing the patients with diabetic retinopathy