VIDEO: OCT impact on diagnosis, treatment of DME

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OCT is very essential while managing these patients with diabetic macular edema. It starts with making the correct diagnosis of diabetic macular edema in these patients. And then, you know, we have different types of diabetic macular edema. And OCT, depending upon the type of edema, we decide what kind of treatment we can offer. And we also look into multiple biomarkers, which are pretty much, very much useful for the future prediction, how this patient is going to respond to what kind of treatment. So, I believe OCT plays a very important role in diagnosis as well as following up these patients. One of the very important things which I particularly use OCT for is the damage to the outer retinal structures, which I believe is one of the very sensitive markers for visual outcome. Because many times when we treat our patients, the response is really good, but the improvement in the vision is not as much as we expect. And that primarily happens because of the damage, which we can see on the OCT. And if you can actually assess that damage on these scans, you can always predict how much visual acuity improvement is going to happen, and then we can decide what kind of treatment we can offer. So, it certainly plays a very important role.