Diabetic Retinopathy and Its Management

Abstract

A 70-year-old man notes progressive problems with reading the newspaper and seeing signs while driving over the past year. His most recent examination with a comprehensive ophthalmologist was approximately 3 years ago when he was told he had some evidence of “diabetes” in his eyes. He also has a past medical history of diabetes for which he is taking an oral hypoglycemic agent, and a history of hypertension for which he is taking two medications, but he cannot recall what the medications are, and did not bring them to his examination. He is not aware what his hemoglobin A1C level is, but his reply to this question also was that he might have “a little anemia.”