The purpose of this study was to evaluate functional and funduscopic outcomes amongst patients receiving multiple treatments with macular laser photocoagulation for clinically significant diabetic macular edema. A record review was conducted of patients who had multiple macular laser treatments for diabetic macular edema. As part of routine follow-up for diabetic macular edema, visual acuity and funduscopic findings were assessed before a given laser treatment and at 6 months afterwards. The study included 64 eyes from 41 patients. There was no statistically significant difference between the proportion of eyes that showed funduscopic improvement after treatment 1 versus the proportion of eyes that improved after subsequent treatments. For the first laser treatment, 44 of the 64 eyes (69%) showed funduscopic improvement in edema. 35/64 (55%) of eyes showed improvement after the second treatment (p=0.15); 29/40 (72.5%) eyes showed improvement after the third treatment (p=0.85); 15/18 (83.3%) eyes showed improvement after treatments[greater than or equal to]4 (p=0.36). Similarly, in terms of visual acuity outcomes, there was no statistically significant difference between the proportion of eyes with preserved visual acuities after treatment 1 compared to repeat treatments. This study found that the majority of eyes that receive re-treatment after initial laser therapy will respond with an improvement in macular edema.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:YALE_med/oai:ymtdl.med.yale.edu:etd-06282006-150918 |
| Date | 15 November 2006 |
| Creators | Vora, Sadhna Raju |
| Contributors | Ron Adelman |
| Publisher | Yale University |
| Source Sets | Yale Medical student MD Thesis |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://ymtdl.med.yale.edu/theses/available/etd-06282006-150918/ |
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