What is "diabetic retinopathy"?

What is "diabetic retinopathy"?

Robert K. Maloney (Ophthalmologist) gives expert video advice on: Are some signs of diabetic retinopathy?; What are the most common treatments of diabetic retinopathy? and more...

One of the severe complications of diabetes is called diabetic retinopathy. Diabetic retinopathy is an effect on the retina of the eye due to the diabetes, and the diabetes causes new blood vessels to grow in the back of the eye where they're not supposed to be, and these blood vessels can detach the retina by actually pulling it off the inside of the eye, leading to blindness.