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Comparative-Effectiveness Study Confirms New Treatment for Diabetic Macular Edema – 3
Narrator: This is NIH Health Matters. I’m Joe Balintfy. For an eye condition called diabetic macular edema, a laser treatment has been the standard care for the past 25 years. But Dr. Neil Bressler from the Wilmer Eye Institute, at Johns Hopkins University explains new research is showing better vision than laser treatment alone.
Bressler: The new treatment option now is to use a new drug, which is called Ranibizumab, or the trade name is Lucentis, and by injecting that as often as every four weeks for at least one to two years, we found that you could get improvement in vision about 50 percent of the time.
Balintfy: For more about Diabetic Macular Edema research and treatment options, visit www.nei.nih.gov. Health Matters is produced by the National Institutes of Health, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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