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New Treatment For Retinopathy |
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Diabetes results in complications. Retinopathy is one
such complication arising out of lenient diabetes care or lack of
diabetes education. It could be best avoided with proper diabetes
management. Along with laser treatment, new treatments are on the way
for retinopathy cure. To know more about treatments, read new
treatment retinopathy.
Diabetes retinopathy is result of the damage done to blood vessels of retina. In severe
cases, it may even lead to blindness. It is of two types, proliferative
and non proliferative retinopathy. It could be avoided by proper
diabetic cure. But, once developed, it is treated usually by laser
therapy. In some cases, surgery is performed.
But, researches are on to find out new modes of treatment. Recently, New York Eye and Ear
Infirmary has claimed to have produced a new medicine for retinopathy of
early stage. Presently, we don't have medicines in the market to cure
early stage of retinopathy. An enzyme called protein kinase C is
hyperactive in diabetics and is considered to be the main cause of
retinopathy. New medicine at infirmary aims at inhibiting the function
of this enzyme.
Australian professor, Rakoczy and her team is
working hard to introduce successful gene therapies for retinopathy
cure. Researchers at her lab aim at identifying new agents from retina
that resist the disease. If this research proves successful, retinopathy
would be cured with barely one or two injections. Retinopathy usually
develops in case of type 2 diabetes.
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