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Can Diabetic Retinopathy Be Treated?
Yes. Your eye care professional may suggest laser surgery in which a strong lightbeam is aimed onto the retina to shrink the abnormal vessels.
Laser surgery has been proved to reduce risk of severe vision loss from this type of diabetic retinopathy by 90 percent.
If you have macular edema, laser surgery may also be used. In this case, the laser beam is used to seal the leaking blood vessels. However, laser surgery often cannot restore vision that has already been lost.
That is why finding diabetic retinopathy early is the best way to prevent vision loss.
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