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Modern cataract surgery minimizes risk of complications in diabetic patients
VIENNA — Most diabetic patients can benefit from modern cataract surgery as much as people without diabetes, unless pre-existing diabetic macular edema is present, according to one specialist. “Most of us have been raised with the ETDRS recommendations to perform, after cataract extraction, panretinal laser photocoagulation in patients with severe nonproliferative diabetic retinopathy and focal grid laser for patients with macular edema. We were in the 1980s and treated patients with the techniques of those days,” Morten la Cour, MD, said at the meeting of the European Society of Ophthalmology.