[Follow-up of early diabetic maculopathy by angiography and fluorophotometry].

We evaluated prospectively for 12 months 22 patients with late-onset diabetes mellitus and minimal retinopathy by fluorescein angiography and fluorophotometry. The study showed that early retinopathy changes were not permanent or invariably progressive, but may regress. Microaneurysm gradings worsened in 24%, improved in 14% and remained stabilized in 62%.