| Abstrakt: |
A classification of diabetic retinopathy and diabetic maculopathy as well as treatment schemes for each stage, which were worked out by the authors, are described in the paper. A stage free of any diabetic changes in the eye fundus is isolated, within the suggested classification, as well as the notion of a high-risk diabetic retinopathy is defined with more precision and in accordance with the modern understanding of importance of the vitreous-retinal interaction and of compensation of carbohydrate metabolism in the disease pathogenesis. Finally, an original classification of diabetic macular edema was introduced. |
