caa a22 4500 465778070 CHVBK 20180323111947.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170327e19900901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00927257 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00927257 Macular detachment following laser treatment for proliferative diabetic retinopathy [Elektronische Daten] [Andrew Elliott, Declan Flanagan] Case records of patients who had macular detachment following argon laser photocoagulation for proliferative diabetic retinopathy were reviewed. Thirteen eyes of 11 patients out of a total of 480 patients treated had this complication, and in 12 eyes of 10 patients the short latency suggested a true precipitating effect. This represents 2.1 % of patients receiving panretinal photocoagulation. Patients with detachment were younger and developed diabetes earlier than the controls (P<0.025), and the detached eyes had received more numerous laser burns on average per session than the controls (P<0.001). In 5 eyes the last photocoagulation dose exceeded 1000 burns delivered in the presence of traction membranes in an attempt to arrest continuing neovascular proliferation not responding to earlier more moderate treatment. Only 1 eye had received early, extensive and repeated photocoagulation. Vigorous treatment at an early stage of the proliferation may prevent this complication, although the advantages or disadvantages of fractionation of photocoagulation will only be shown by a prospective trial. Springer-Verlag, 1990 Elliott Andrew Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK aut Flanagan Declan Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK aut Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Springer-Verlag 228/5(1990-09-01), 438-441 0721-832X 228:5<438 1990 228 417 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00927257 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00927257 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Elliott Andrew Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Flanagan Declan Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology Springer-Verlag 228/5(1990-09-01), 438-441 0721-832X 228:5<438 1990 228 417 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer