Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy can be seen in the eye with an ophthalmoscope as neovascularisation.
Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy can be seen in the eye with an ophthalmoscope as neovascularisation, a proliferative growth of abnormal new blood vessels. Neovascularisation appears as a twisted collection of blood vessels and is quite dangerous because these vessels grow abnormally out of the retina into the clear vitreous gel. Because vessels grow beyond the supporting structure of the retina, they are very prone to bleeding, especially when they occur near the disc, the area where blood vessels and nerves enter the eye. Any jerking motion or even a rise in the blood pressure can lead to a rupture of one of these abnormal vessels and cause an hemorrhage
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