WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — Katherine E. Talcott, MD, gave an overview on managing vitreous hemorrhage in proliferative diabetic retinopathy at Retina 2022.
Talcott said that performing surgery for vitreous hemorrhage is one of her favorite procedures. “I think it’s among the most satisfying of the surgeries that we can do,” she said.
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is the most advanced stage of diabetic retinopathy and is estimated to be present in about 1.4% of patients with diabetes. One of the major complications of the disease is vitreous hemorrhage from retinal