WAIKOLOA, Hawaii — At Retina 2022, Sophie J. Bakri, MD, provided some pearls on the clinical relevance of imaging for diabetic macular edema.
In addition to diagnosing DME, Bakri said imaging helps document disease progression and exclude other diseases or disease manifestations.
“With edema, we need to measure it serially to assess response to treatment, and we may wish to measure nonperfusion in the macula and elsewhere,” she said. “Really, the big thing is where it will change patient management.”
There are several options when it comes to imaging in DME, but a