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A 40 year old patient presented with sudden onset of painless vision loss from his left eye. There were no associated ocular symptoms and he was systemically well, though moderately over weight.

CASE STUDY: Bilateral Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy

I saw a patient, who presented to his optometrist initially due to a floater in his left eye.

On examination today, his unaided acuities are right 6/12+ and left 6/6, the right improved to 6/9- with a pinhole. His intraocular pressures were right 16mmHg and left 14mmHg with Goldman applanation tonometry. Dilated fundus examination revealed bilateral proliferative diabetic retinopathy. He has pre-retinal haemorrhages on the right. See pictures. There were no signs of retinal tears

This patient has bilateral proliferative diabetic retinopathy. Given he did not have a diagnosis of diabetes, we checked his sugar level, which was 20mmol/L. He has been sent to his GP for systemic assessment. Meanwhile a combination treatment of intravitreal injections and retinal laser has been advised for his eyes.

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