2024-03-26 16:46:51
Precision medicine is extremely valuable to avoid irreversible blindness in patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) and retinal vein occlusion (RVO), concluded ophthalmology specialists gathered at the 9th Readyt Symposium: Retina Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment.
Specifically, he reported Infosalusspecialists highlighted the importance of the predictive value of image biomarkers in the diagnosis, classification and choice of treatment for retinal pathologies.
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) can detect biomarkers, an analysis that goes in the direction of precision medicine.
“An estimated 7.6 percent of diabetes patients worldwide are living with DME, a disease in which the macula, the part of the retina responsible for central vision and detail, becomes inflamed and accumulates fluid as a result. of poor glycemic control,” the portal reported.
RVO, on the other hand, is the second most common cause of vision loss due to retinal vascular pathology; a condition that causes a sudden decrease in visual capacity. “Patients with RVO usually reach the ophthalmologist through the emergency department, and require rapid treatment to stop visual loss,” the report detailed.
If not treated in time, both conditions can lead to irreversible blindness, a condition that in 80 percent of cases is preventable or amenable to prior treatment.
Edoardo Midena, director of Ophthalmology at the University Hospital of Padua in Italy, called on his colleagues to see precision medicine as a tool already available.
“When we talk about precision medicine, we talk about the Ophthalmology of the present. We have in our hands not only the biomarkers; also the consensuses and algorithms that allow for an individualized approach to retinal pathologies that, if not treated correctly the first time, can cause irreversible blindness,” he said.
One of the most recent advances in this regard is artificial intelligence software that allows labeling and measuring parameters related to the retina.
Precision medicine could also help alleviate the saturation of hospital services, according to experts.
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