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Laser Deemed Best Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy

Laser Deemed Best Treatment for Diabetic Retinopathy
HealthDay

By Jennifer Thomas

Thursday, December 31, 2009

THURSDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Steroid injections into the eye slowed diabetes-related eye disease, though lasers remain the treatment of choice because of side effects related to the steroids, new research shows.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Wilmer Eye Institute gave 693 men and women who had diabetic retinopathy with macular edema either injections of a corticosteroid into their eyes as often as every four months or a laser photocoagulation, the standard treatment. The average age of the participants was 63.