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Regression of disc neovascularization by photocoagulation in the acute retinal necrosis syndrome. Retina 1988;8(4):244-6

Date

01/01/1988

Pubmed ID

2466318

DOI

10.1097/00006982-198808040-00004

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-0024203733 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   7 Citations

Abstract

Disc neovascularization developed in one eye of a 40-year-old white woman with the acute retinal necrosis syndrome. Krypton laser scatter photocoagulation was placed in areas of nonnecrotic and segmentally nonperfused retina that were demonstrated by fluorescein angiography. Marked reduction in disc neovascularization was noted clinically 16 days after laser treatment and was confirmed angiographically 4 weeks after treatment. Neovascularization was completely regressed at 9 weeks after treatment. The authors postulate that the retinal vasculitis and nonperfusion produced retinal ischemia which stimulated neovascular proliferation, and that photocoagulation caused regression of the neovascularization.

Author List

Han DP, Abrams GW, Williams GA

Author

Dennis Han MD Emeritus Professor in the Ophthalmology department at Medical College of Wisconsin

MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Female
Fluorescein Angiography
Humans
Light Coagulation
Necrosis
Neovascularization, Pathologic
Optic Disk
Retinitis
Visual Acuity