Long-Term Results after External Radiotherapy in Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Abstract

External RT of AMD with 14.4 Gy as well as with the escalated dose of 25.2 Gy showed a poor beneficial outcome after 6 and 12 months, respectively. After a follow-up of 4 years, visual outcome in irradiated patients was similar to the natural course of the disease. A conspicuous efficacy of RT in prevention of blindness could not be demonstrated.

Radiation Therapy for Painful Heel Spurs

“…RT is known to be very effective in the treatment in various entities of benign diseases [5,20,26,27,35,37,39], but worldwide it has no acceptance in the management of degenerative and inflammatory disorders [37]. By contrast, in the Central European countries and especially in Germany anti-inflammatory RT has a long tradition and is used routinely in clinical practice.…”

Radiotherapy for Orbital Lymphoma

“…In our study, these patients were treated with a mean dose of 44 Gy. In additional to local disease control, treatment of orbital lymphoma should consider the functional preservation of the eye [5,12,19,24]. A posttherapeutic enucleation was not necessary in our series, and retina or optic nerve complications were not observed either.…”