Meet the editor

Giuseppe Lo Giudice obtained an MD from the University of Messina, Italy. He completed his ophthalmological residency at the Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padua, Italy. He was a fellow in the Ophthalmology Department, Gironcoli Ophthalmic Center, from 2002 to 2004. He was an assistant in ophthalmology at Conegliano Hospital Conegliano, Treviso, Italy, from 2004 to 2007. Since 2007, Dr. Giudice has been a surgeon

and vice-director at San Antonio Hospital, University of Padua. His fields of interest include treatments for retinal diseases (proliferative retinopathies, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy) and vitreoretinal surgery. He has more than twenty-five years of experience in clinical research as well as in clinical trials and laboratory research. He performed more than 10,000 anterior segment surgeries (cataract surgery, glaucoma surgery, corneal transplantation) in the last five years. He has also performed more than 700 vitreo-retinal surgeries in the last two years at San Antonio Hospital.

Contents

**Section 1**

Pathophysiology of Diabetic Retinopathy

Role of Inflammation in Diabetic Retinopathy

*by Anuj Sharma and Deepesh Arora*

Therapies in Diabetic Retinopathy

*by Surabhi Ruia and Koushik Tripathy*

in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

**Section 2**

*by Ioana Damian and Simona Delia Nicoară*

High-Risk Diabetic Maculopathy: Features and Management

*by Natalia Lobanovskaya*

*by Maya G. Pandova*

**Preface XI**

Clinical Presentation of Diabetic Retinopathy and Pathogenesis **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 21**

**Chapter 3 47**

**Chapter 4 71**

**Chapter 5 95**

Clinical Diagnostic Methodologies **109**

**Chapter 6 111**

**Chapter 7 131**

Local Inflammatory Biomarkers and Potential Inflammation-Targeting

Role of Lipid, Protein-Derived Toxic Molecules, and Deficiency of Antioxidants behind the Pathogenesis of Diabetic Retinopathy (DR)

*Chiranjit Bose, Debgopal Bera and Koena Bhattacharjee*

Optical Coherence Tomography in Diabetic Retinopathy

Adaptive Optics Imaging Technique in Diabetic Retinopathy *by Florian Baltă, Irina Elena Cristescu and Ioana Teodora Tofolean*

*by Subhasish Pramanik, Lakshmi Kanta Mondal, Subhankar Chowdhury,* 
