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Dr. Amit Gupta

Dr. Amit Gupta

MD, FACS
Ophthalmologist
Scarborough, ON
Q:

Diabetes And The Importance Of Regular Eye Exams

A:

Once you have been diagnosed as having diabetes, you need to get regular eye exams. You may not realize when you have eye disease, your vision can be 20/20, even though there’s bleeding in the back of the eye.

Only your eye doctor can look inside that eye and tell you that you’re having a problem. Whether it is by looking, or by doing tests such as optical optical coherence tomography or photographs, the doctor needs to look inside your eyes to be able to tell if you have a problem.

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Diabetes And The Importance Of Regular Eye Exams

Dr. Michael Kapusta

Dr. Michael Kapusta

MD, FRCSC
Ophthalmologist
Montreal, QC
Q:

What is Advanced (Proliferative) Diabetic Retinopathy and Pars Plana Vitrectomy?

A:

Diabetic patients may experience two forms of retinopathy. One is called background, the other proliferative. Background retinopathy has changes in the retina that include swelling of the retina, or diabetic macular edema.

Proliferative diabetic retinopathy may have growth of blood vessels, which can bleed in the eye, or pull on the retina and detach the retina.

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What is Advanced (Proliferative) Diabetic Retinopathy and Pars Plana Vitrectomy?

Dr. Greg Moloney

Dr. Greg Moloney

MMED, FRCSC
Ophthalmologist
Vancouver, BC
Q:

What is Keratoconus and PRK

A:

Photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) is a type of refractive surgery. This kind of surgery uses a laser to treat vision problems caused by refractive errors. You have a refractive error when your eye does not refract (bend) light properly.

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Keratoconus and PRK