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Recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of Coats' disease
Xinyue Yang1, Chenguang Wang1, Guanfang Su2
1Department of Ophthalmology, The Second Hospital of Jilin University, 218 Ziqiang Street, Changchun, 130041, Jilin, China.
Purpose:
To review and summarize the recent progress in the diagnosis and treatment of Coats' disease.
Methods:
Literature was collected from Web of Science, Medline and Pubmed, through searching of these keywords: "Coats' disease", "diagnosis" and "treatment".
Results:
Coats' disease is characterized by idiopathic leaky retinal vascular telangiectasia and microvascular abnormalities often accompanied by intraretinal or subretinal exudation and retinal detachment. Neovascular glaucoma and phthisis bulbi often occur in advanced cases. Coats' disease has significant diversity in terms of its clinical presentation and morphology. Anti-VEGF therapy combined with laser photocoagulation for early Coats' disease and anti-VEGF therapy combined with minimally invasive vitrectomy for advanced Coats' disease can achieve good efficacy.
Conclusion:
Early diagnosis and timely treatment based on clinical stage are critical to retaining the patient's visual function. Patients should be aware that close long-term follow-up is necessary.
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