Sentences with phrase «called retinopathy»

The finding could enable more blindness - preventing treatment for infants born in rural and other areas where there are few ophthalmologists trained to detect the condition, called retinopathy of prematurity, or ROP.

People with diabetes are at risk of developing a complication called retinopathy.

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This complication is called diabetic retinopathy (DR), when blood vessels are progressively damaged in the retina.

The powerful light can cause extensive, sometimes permanent eye damage, a condition called solar retinopathy.

An advanced stage, called proliferative diabetic retinopathy, occurs when abnormal blood vessels grow near the retina, the light - sensitive tissue at the back of the eye.

The software, called IDx - DR, looks for diabetic retinopathy, an eye disease that afflicts individuals with diabetes.

Changes to the retina called diabetic retinopathy will eventually affect nearly all persons with diabetes.

While laser treatments based on work pioneered at Joslin in the 1960s have helped to minimize this damage, injecting a drug called ranibizumab can be more effective, according to results from a major clinical study by the Diabetes Retinopathy Clinical Research Network (DRCR.net) announced today.