医学
黄斑变性
色素性视网膜炎
神经退行性变
疾病
神经保护
糖尿病性视网膜病变
生物信息学
临床试验
神经科学
青光眼
视网膜
重症监护医学
眼科
药理学
病理
糖尿病
生物
内分泌学
作者
Rachele Marino,Rebecca M. Sappington,Marco Feligioni
标识
DOI:10.4103/1673-5374.373662
摘要
Retinal dysfunction is the most common cause of vision loss in several retinal disorders. It has been estimated a great increase in these pathologies that are becoming more globally widespread and numerous over time, also supported by the life expectancy increment. Among different types of retinopathies, we can account some that share causes, symptoms, and treatment including diabetic retinopathy, age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma, and retinitis pigmentosa. Molecular changes, environmental factors, and genetic predisposition might be some of the main causes that drive retinal tissue to chronic inflammation and neurodegeneration in these retinopathies. The treatments available on the market contain compounds that efficiently ameliorate some of the important clinical features of these pathologies like stabilization of the intraocular pressure, reduction of eye inflammation, control of eye oxidative stress which are considered the major molecular mechanisms related to retinal dysfunction. Indeed, the most commonly used drugs are anti-inflammatories, such as corticosteroids, antioxidant, hypotonic molecules and natural neuroprotective compounds. Unfortunately, these drugs, which are fundamental to treating disease symptoms, are not capable to cure the pathologies and so they are not life-changing for patients. This review provided an overview of current treatments on the market, but more interestingly, wants to be a quick window on the new treatments that are now in clinical trials. Additionally, it has been here highlighted that the recent technical enhancement of the investigation methods to identify the various retinopathies causes might be used as a sort of "precise medicine" approach to tailor the identification of molecular pathways involved and potentially study a dedicated treatment for each patient. This approach includes the use of cutting-edge technologies like gene therapy and metabolomics.
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