Guidelines

InSIGHT
Your visual guide to the guidelines

Diabetic Retinopathy
Management and Treatment
Prompt referal to an ophthalmologist
knowledgeable and experienced in the management
of diabetic retinopathy in patients with:

Any level of macular edema

Moderate or worse nonproliferative
diabetic retinopathy
Any proliferative diabetic retinopathy

Treatment Modalities

Panretinal laser photocoagulation therapy

OR intravenous injections of anti-vascular

This infographic is based on recommendations from the

ADA’s Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes--2023
growth factor (in some)

Macular focal/grid photocoagulation and

intravenous injections of corticosteroids
(persistent macular edema or those not candidates
for first line therapy)
Retinopathy is not a contraindication
to aspirin therapy
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