Diabetic retinopathy, an overview

M Elizabeth Hartnett; Wolfgang Baehr; Yun Z Le

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2017.07.006

Diabetic retinopathy, an overview

Vision Res. 2017 Oct:139:1-6. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.07.006. Epub 2017 Aug 4.

Authors

M Elizabeth Hartnett¹, Wolfgang Baehr², Yun Z Le³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, United States. Electronic address: ME.Hartnett@hsc.utah.edu.
² Department of Ophthalmology, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah Health Sciences, Salt Lake City, UT 84132, United States.
³ Section of Endocrinology and Diabetes, Departments of Medicine, Cell Biology and Ophthalmology and Harold Hamm Diabetes Center, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, OK 73104-5020, United States.

PMID: 28757399
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2017.07.006

Abstract

This overview introduces contributions to a special issue on causes of vision loss from diabetes mellitus, focusing on the retina and also the cornea. Diabetic retinopathy is the most common and leading cause of vision loss among people with diabetes. Research to detect early symptoms, understand mechanisms leading to diabetic eye disease, and the development of treatments is a highly active research area, with currently about 2000 scientific publication per year. We provide a series of 27 comprehensive reviews and research articles from leading experts in the field.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Diabetes Mellitus / physiopathology
Diabetic Retinopathy*
Humans
Vision Disorders / physiopathology