title: Advanced diabetic retinopathy: surgical treatment of complications.
abstract: Visual loss from the complications of advanced diabetic retinopathy now can be managed more effectively by surgical vitrectomy with a significant reduction in operative and postoperative ocular morbidity. Ocular structures are now maintained in a more normal physiologic state, leaving the patient's lens in place, helping to reduce postoperative glaucoma.
mesh_terms: D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000601:surgery*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000601:surgery; D008028:Light Coagulation; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery; D014821:Vitrectomy