Exudative age-related macular degeneration in patients with diabetic retinopathy and its relation to retinal laser photocoagulation
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R Zylbermann1, D Landau, Y Rozenman
1Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
Purpose:
To study the relationship between exudative age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retinopathy and assess the influence of retinal laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy on the occurrence of exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Methods:
Two groups, one of diabetic retinopathy patients treated with laser and the other of non-laser-treated diabetic retinopathy patients, were studied by means of fundoscopy and fluorescein angiography for the presence of exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Results:
Exudative age-related macular degeneration was not observed in 431 patients treated with laser photocoagulation, and was diagnosed in 3.3% of 151 non-laser-treated patients.
Conclusion:
Patients treated by laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy are less prone to develop the exudative form of age-related macular degeneration.
