Abstract
The authors treated sea-fan neovascularization in 19 patients (21 eyes) who had proliferative sickle cell retinopathy with localized scatter photocoagulation. They placed burns of light to moderate intensity adjacent to 45 sea fans in a scatter fashion. In general, treatment extended from 1.5 mm posterior to 1.5 mm anterior to the sea fan and one clock hour to each side of each lesion. Flat sea fans responded dramatically to treatment, with complete regression in 24 of 28 lesions. Elevated sea fans (especially large ones) responded less readily, with complete regression in only 4 of 17 lesions. Localized scatter photocoagulation is valuable in treating patients with early proliferative sickle cell retinopathy.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 594-599 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | American journal of ophthalmology |
| Volume | 93 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1982 |
Funding
From the Sickle Cell Eye Clinic, University of Illinois Hospital Eye and Ear Infirmary, Chicago, Illinois. Supported in part by grants PHS HL 15168 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and EY 1792 from the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Ophthalmology