a: Recent studies of choroidal neovascultization (CNV) associated with high myopia suggest that laser weatment can be effective in the management of selected cases. Nevertheless, visual outcome of treated cases during follow-up tends to be jeopardtzed by extension of laser scars. This study was designed to clarify the visual prognosis during long-rem? followup of myopic CNV treated by laser pho...

a: Recent studies of choroidal neovascultization (CNV) associated with high myopia suggest that laser weatment can be effective in the management of selected cases. Nevertheless, visual outcome of treated cases during follow-up tends to be jeopardtzed by extension of laser scars. This study was designed to clarify the visual prognosis during long-rem? followup of myopic CNV treated by laser pho...

Photocoagulation is an accepted method of local treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy. It has been shown that 73 25 per cent. of eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy have new vessels on the optic disc at the initial visit (Taylor and Dobree, I970). These vessels cannot be treated directly by photocoagulation. Aiello, Beetham, Balodimos, Chazan, and Bradley (I969) treated all ...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether photocoagulation of the retinal nonperfusion area suppresses ocular vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in a rabbit retinal vein occlusion (RVO) model. Methods The retinas of pigmented rabbits were made ischemic by a laser on the main branch of retinal veins following intravenous injection of Rose Bengal. The eyes were...

AIMS To evaluate the analgesic effect of topical sodium diclofenac 0.1% during retinal laser photocoagulation. METHODS 87 patients, 45 with proliferative diabetic retinopathy treated with two sessions of panretinal photocoagulation (group A), and 42 patients with non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy who underwent grid treatment of the posterior pole (19 bilaterally) (group B). Sodium diclof...

a: Recent studies of choroidal neovascultization (CNV) associated with high myopia suggest that laser weatment can be effective in the management of selected cases. Nevertheless, visual outcome of treated cases during follow-up tends to be jeopardtzed by extension of laser scars. This study was designed to clarify the visual prognosis during long-rem? followup of myopic CNV treated by laser pho...

come clinically visible, resulting in the blue appearance of the sclera. We report the treatment of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in 4 eyes of 3 patients with OI. Scleral buckling surgery, pneumatic retinopexy, and primary vitrectomy are the standards for repair of uncomplicated rhegmatogenous retinal detachments. In patients with OI, however, the thin sclera provides an increased risk of s...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of macrophages in the development of laser-induced choroidal neovascularization (CNV) by selective depletion with liposomal clodronate (Cl(2)MDP-LIP). METHODS Laser photocoagulation was used to induce CNV in wild-type C57BL/6J mice. Animals were treated with intravenous (IV) and/or subconjunctival (SC) Cl(2)MDP-LIP or PBS-LIP at the following time points: 2 d...

A 31-year-old woman lost central visual acuity in her left eye during scatter argon laser photocoagulation when her ophthalmologist treated the temporal peripapillary region. There was no evidence for a vascular explanation. Previous experimental work showed that the lateral spread of thermal energy into the optic nerve parenchyma from the peripapillary pigment epithelium and choroid can destro...

Purpose: Describe the outcomes of thermal laser photocoagulation in three cases of retinal pigment epithelium detachment associated to age-related macular degeneration. Methods: Three patients with avascular retinal pigment epithelium detachment were treated with green diode laser photocoagulation. Mild macular grid laser application, similar to the treatment of diabetic macular edema was perfo...