The treatment showed stability or improvement in the Diabetic Retinopathy Severity Scale (DRSS) and generally the drug was ...

[26] In a small-scale randomized controlled study of 23 patients with severe NPDR or early PDR, octreotide (a long-acting somatostatin analogue) reduced the requirement for laser photocoagulation ...

with moderate NPDR, 22 patients (11.1%) with severe NPDR and 25 patients (25.1%) with proliferative DR (PDR). There were significant relation between age, sex and duration of diabetes and DR.

The following is a summary of “Evaluation of macular retinal oximetry across different levels of diabetic retinopathy: a cross sectional study,” published in the January 2025 issue of Ophthalmology by ...