Help your patients be proactive about their retinal health.
Prepare. Promote. Prevent.
Prepare your patients. Promote retinal health. Prevent blindness.
Over 425 million people worldwide have diabetes, and diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the fourth leading cause of blindness in the world.1 Join ZEISS in raising awareness of the importance of frequent vision screenings and retinal health checks.
Do your patients know?
Early detection, treatment and follow-up care can reduce the risk of severe vision loss by 95%.
Adults age 50+ with diabetes are at a higher risk for developing diabetic retinopathy.
Only half of all people with diabetes get an annual comprehensive dilated eye exam.
Help your patients understand what diabetic retinopathy looks like
The early stages of diabetic retinopathy usually have no symptoms. The disease often progresses unnoticed until bleeding occurs and affects vision. The lack of prompt or routine retinal health checks increases the risk of permanent vision loss. If diabetic macular edema (DME) occurs, it can result in blurred vision.


We saw a patient with a pretty moderate case of diabetic retinopathy. She knew she had diabetes, but she really didn't know anything else.
Katherine Makedonsky, OD

ZEISS volunteers help raise DR awareness at free screening event
In California, three million people are without medical insurance. Even more that that lack dental or vision insurance.1 Many of those affected are among the homeless population, but several others work and live below the poverty level. For them, the cost of preventative care just isn’t in the budget. Progressive diseases, like diabetic retinopathy (DR), are left unchecked—not only because of the financial burden of doctor visits—but because those affected never knew they even had the root cause of DR, uncontrolled diabetes.
Help protect your patients' vision. Remind them of these 5 simple steps recommended by the National Eye Institute:
The National Eye Institute recommends five simple steps (TRACK) to help manage diabetes-related vision problems:
Take your medications as prescribed by your doctor
Reach and maintain a healthy weight
Add more physical activity to your daily routine
Control your ABCs-A1C, blood pressure and cholesterol levels
Kick the smoking habit
In addition, proactive and frequent eye exams can go a long way in helping diabetic patients preserve their vision. Watch a related video and share it with your patients to educate them on the importance of frequent eye exams.
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Retinal Health Check Patient Guides
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Diabetic Retinopathy: A Multi-Specialty Perspective
Clinicians across specialties agree that dialogue and continuous communication between primary care physicians, endocrinologists, ophthalmologists and optometrists are crucial for the management of diabetes.
A team-based approach to DR management
Diabetes is a "head to toe" disease that requires constant monitoring and management. The onset of diabetes may often affect multiple body systems, including vision. The reverse may also be true. The onset of diabetic retinopathy or diabetic nephropathy is often the first indication that the patient is diabetic. This calls for a multi-specialty approach to the management of diabetes.
Watch four clinicians from across multiple specialties discuss the importance and advantages of a team-based approach to diabetes care management.


Download a diabetic retinopathy case study
This is a case of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). High-resolution FA images provide detailed visualization of the retina which is important for PDR – where subtle details inform diagnosis.
To review the case in more detail, download the PDF below.
Managing diabetic eye disease with confidence
ZEISS Integrated Diagnostic Imaging
Multi-modality in diagnostics and imaging are increasingly becoming the standard of care in eye clinics. The ability to assess and compare the data from different modalities provides clinicians a new level of confidence for proposing a treatment regimen that is customized to each patient's individual needs.
Technologies that work better together
As a clinician, your patient is your first priority, and that means providing the best level of care available today. However, that’s not all that is needed. The burgeoning patient population also demands efficiency from doctors and practices, and while the advent of new and better technologies have elevated care for patients, clinicians no longer have the time to log onto multiple platforms to review different sets of data.
Enter the Integrated Diagnostic Imaging platform from ZEISS, the software-driven multi-modality solution that gathers, combines and associates data from different diagnostics devices, improving decision making and efficiency.
Above: Dr. Jean-François Korobelnik demonstrates the value of integrated diagnostics for managing diabetic retinopathy.
Reference
1 https://www.idf.org/e-library/epidemiology-research/54-our-activities/455-world-diabetes-day-2018-19.html