A Clinical study on Therapeutic Effect of the Argon Laser Photocoagulation for Prevention of Vitreous Hemorrhage in BRVO.

Lee, Yong Man; Choi, Gwang Ju; Yoon, Hi Mo

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1995;36(1):52-57.
Published online January 1, 1995.

A Clinical study on Therapeutic Effect of the Argon Laser Photocoagulation for Prevention of Vitreous Hemorrhage in BRVO.

Yong Man Lee, Gwang Ju Choi, Hi Mo Yoon

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Hospital, Kwang Ju, Korea.

망막분지 정맥폐쇄에서 초자체 출혈 예방을 위한 레이저 광응고술 효과에 대한 임상적 고찰

이용만(Yong Man Lee),최광주(Gwang Ju Choi),윤희모(Hi Mo Yoon)

Abstract

Branch retinal vein occlusion(BRVO) is the most frequent entity of retinal vascular abnormality following diabetic retinopathy; a review of diagnosis for all our new outpatients verifies this, Sudden loss of visual acuity occur in the vast majority of BRVO patients. Other complications are macular edema, capillary nonperfusion, neovascularization, vitreous hemorrhage and so on. We did a clinical analysis of 71 patients with BRVO(71 eyes), who were considered to be treated with laser photocoagulation to prevent vitreous hemorrhage. We confirmed the fact that laser photocoagulation could prevent vitreous hemorrhage to a significant degree, but we were unable to demonstrate any statistical correlation between the occurrence of vitreous hemorrhage and the time of laser photocoagulation.

Key Words: Branch Retinal Vein Occlusion;Laser photocoagulation;Vitreous hemorrhage