Your Steroid Resource

Sometimes newer is not necessarily better.

Over the last five years, many ophthalmologists began using intraocular steroid injections instead of laser surgery to treat a condition called diabetic macular edema, an abnormal swelling in the eye that develops in 40 percent to 45 percent of people with diabetes. They adopted the newer treatment based on results from a few clinical studies that suggested treatment with the steroid, intravitreal triamcinolone, might be helpful.