The Causes and Therapy of Thrombosis of the Retinal Veins

Loon, J.A. van

doi:10.1159/000304104

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“…None has been satisfactorily proved to be advantageous. Therapeutic trials have included the use of the following: potassium iodide and pilocarpine (Braendstrup, 1950), irradiation (Gradle, 1937;Hessberg, 1944;Guyton and Reese, 1948), anticoagulants (Holmin and Ploman, 1938;Klien and Olwin, 1956;Vannas and Orma, 1957), fibrinolytic *Presented at the American Medical Association Annual Convention, St. Louis, June 17-22, 1978. Correspondence to Donald R. May (Dolenek et al, 1968;Kohner et al, 1976), dextran (Frangois and Verbraeken, 1974), corticosteroids (Van Loon, 1961;Mehlan et al, 1974), and carbogen (95% 02 and 5% CO2) (Sedney, 1976).…”

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Xenon arc panretinal photocoagulation for central retinal vein occlusion: a randomised prospective study.

May¹,

Klein²,

Peyman³

et al. 1979

British Journal of Ophthalmology

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SUMMARY Thirty-three patients with central retinal vein occlusion were evaluated for the effects of scatter xenon arc panretinal photocoagulation. Thirty-four eyes (2 eyes of 1 patient) were randomly divided into a treatment (15 eyes) and a nontreatment group (19 eyes). The average follow-up per eye has been 29 months. The visual prognosis was not significantly better in either group. There was no difference in the development of fundus neovascularisation between groups. None of the patients in the treated group developed rubeosis or neovascular glaucoma. Two patients in the nontreatment group initially had rubeosis and 3 developed it after entry. All 5 involved eyes developed neovascular glaucoma. A significantly greater amount of central retinal capillary drop-out was present in the untreated eyes that developed rubeosis than those untreated eyes which did not. The eyes in the treated group had a similar range of capillary drop-out area, but none of these eyes developed rubeosis or neovascular glaucoma. Panretinal photocoagulation prevented the development of rubeosis and neovascular glaucoma in susceptible eyes.

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