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To develop consensus regarding clinical disease severity classification systems for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema that can be used around the world, and to improve communication and coordination of care among physicians who care for patients with diabetes.

Although appropriate animal models for human conditions like diabetic macular edema are lacking, these insights have provided tools for rational design of drugs aimed at restoring the BRB as well as for design of effective transport of drugs across the BRB, to treat the chronic retinal diseases such as diabetic macular edema that affect the quality-of-life of millions of patients.

There may be cases of macular edema that do not demonstrate significant leakage on FA for diagnosis.

Our patient demonstrated macular edema that was refractory to topical steroids and immunosuppression with methotrexate but that was exquisitely responsive to vitrectomy and intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in one eye.

In both groups, IVTA achieved a reduction of clinical macular edema that was confirmed by OCT.

Posterior subtenon methylprednisolone acetate may improve early visual outcome in diffuse diabetic macular edema that fails to respond to conventional laser photocoagulation.

We recently reported that the vitreous level of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is elevated in BRVO patients with macular edema, and that vitreous VEGF levels are correlated with the non-perfused area of the retina and with the severity of macular edema[ 3, 4].

John Bevan, who has diabetic macular edema, said that every two months or so he used to have an incident in which blood leaked into his eye, blurring his vision.

In 2 cases after HSO removal a cystoid macular edema occurred that was persistent throughout all follow-up visits and could neither be controlled with topical or intravitreal steroids nor with intravitreal bevacizumab.

Studies conducted in patients with diabetic retinopathy and other diabetes-related visual problems such as macular edema suggest that the degree of impact on HRQL is directly related to the reduction in visual acuity [ 13, 17- 19].

With bevacizumab, improvement of the untreated partner eye has been reported in a case of an 8 year-old girl with uveitic cystic macular edema indicating that the systemic drug action might even be strong enough to "treat" the partner eye at least in older children or adults [ 17].