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Haytham I. S. Salti, MD; Johnny K. Khoury, MD; Sandra Haddad, MD

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We read with great interest the recent article by Suto et al¹ about perioperative glycemic control and progression of diabetic retinopathy and maculopathy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM) undergoing unilateral phacoemulsification. They described an interventional prospective case-control study looking at the worsening of the retinopathy level and the worsening maculopathy after cataract extraction in different trends of perioperative glycemic control, and they compared the operated-on eye with the fellow unoperated-on phakic eye with regard to retinopathy and maculopathy progression.

Undeniably, the results of this study are both interesting and informative, yet a couple of comments on the methods used and the discussion are in order.

First, Suto and colleagues reported using fundus fluorescein angiography to determine the level of diabetic retinopathy in a subset of patients with significant lenticular opacities 1 week after cataract surgery. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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