Unit for Multidisciplinary Research in Biomedicine

Bernardete Pessoa, MD

Centro Hospitalar do Porto – Portugal

Senior Fellow in Ophthalmology from the Retina Surgery and Ocular Traumatology Department

Head of the Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme

Interlocutor for the approach of Diabetic Retinopathy

Selected publications:

1. Klein R, Moss SE, Klein BE, Davis MD, DeMets DL. The Wisconsin epidemiologic study of diabetic retinopathy. XI. The incidence of macular edema. Ophthalmology 1989;96:1501-1510.

2. Lewis H, Abrams GW, Blumenkranz MS, Campo RV. Vitrectomy for diabetic macular traction and edema associated with posterior hyaloidal traction. Ophthalmology 1992;99:753-759.

3. Nasrallah FP, Jalkh AE, Van Coppenolle F, et al. The role of the vitreous in diabetic macular edema. Ophthalmology 1988;95:1335-1339.

4. Schmidt-Erfurth U, Garcia-Arumi J, Bandello F, et al. Guidelines for the Management of Diabetic Macular Edema by the European Society of Retina Specialists (EURETINA). Ophthalmologica Journal international d'ophtalmologie International journal of ophthalmology Zeitschrift fur Augenheilkunde 2017;237:185-222.

5. Elman MJ, Ayala A, Bressler NM et al. Diabetic Retinopathy Clinical Research Network. Intravitreal ranibizumab for diabetic macular edema with prompt versus deferred laser treatment: five-year randomized trial results. Ophthalmology 2015;122(2):375-381.