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Diabetic retinopathy, as the term implies, has long been considered to be a disease of the retina alone, afflicting the retinal vasculature and thus the retina surrounding the damaged vessels. Fluorescein angiography (FA), by delineating the fine retinal vessels at the various stages of the disease, greatly increased our understanding of the processes underlying the nature and progression of the vasculopathy, leading to the implementation of retinal laser photocoagulation as the treatment of choice. The possible involvement of the choroidal vasculature in diabetic retinopathy has been explored in only a few studies, including light and electron microscopy1-5. Indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) is used to study the choroid, primarily in age-related macular degeneration in order to pin-point the location of choroidal neo-vascular membranes.
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Yassur, Y., Weinberger, D., Kremer, M., Gaton, D., Axer-Siegal, R., Priel, E.R. (1998). Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy — new findings in indocyanine green angiography. In: Coscas, G., Piccolino, F.C. (eds) Retinal Pigment Epithelium and Macular Diseases. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 62. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5137-5_69
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