title: Diagnosing and monitoring diabetic macular edema: structural and functional tests.
abstract: Diabetic macular edema remains a major cause of visual impairment in adults despite the use of intensive glycemic control, photocoagulation therapy and new intravitreal drugs in the treatment of this disease. Although early diagnosis and treatment lead to better results, we still have patients who become legally blind. Therefore, better structural and functional characterization of this disease is necessary in order to customize treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Via Giustiniani 2, 35128, Padua, Italy, edoardo.midena@unipd.it.
authors.forename: Edoardo
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Midena
authors.forename: Stela
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vujosevic
mesh_terms: D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D008269:Macular Edema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D061848:Optical Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D058609:Visual Field Tests / Q000379:methods; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology