The study to verify the effectiveness of this new method was carried out in 16 diabetic patients with macular edema in both eyes and did not respond to the previous treatment of laser photocoagulation.After six months of monitoring, doctors observed that plasmin injection had considerably reduced the thickness ofThe eye macula caused by edema and stable improved visual acuity.
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease that significantly affects the eyeball, among other organs.Systemic disorders associated with this pathology, such as hypertension, can influence the development of macular edema.It is estimated that ten percent of diabetic people will develop this disease throughout their lives.
The La Fe hospital has already treated about 200 patients with refractory EMD using this new technique, which is beginning to be applied "successfully" in other pathologies of the retina such as thrombosis, macular holes or macular degeneration, among others.
The ophthalmologists of the La Fe hospital involved in the creation and application of this pioneer technique will participate as speakers in the next Congress of the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the most important of the specialty that is celebrated worldwide, in order to publicizeThis new method to treat without surgery the refractory EMD.
