Macular complication: from edema to ischemia

The pathophysiology of macular complications in diabetic retinopathy is multifactorial. Diabetic macular edema and ischemia (both macular and peripheral) are the major drivers of macular involvement in diabetes. Macular edema may be both intra and extra-cellular and it is clinically characterized by different aspects, mainly detected by an accurate qualitative analysis of spectral domain OCT data. This approach allows to identify different...