Senile disciform macular degeneration: features indicating suitability for photocoagulation.

Senile disciform macular degeneration: features indicating suitability for photocoagulation.

During a 1-year period 398 new patients were seen with disciform macular degeneration (530 eyes). The lesions were studied retrospectively, and those in which the neovascular tissue did not underlie the fovea, and therefore were treatable, were identified. The following conclusions were drawn: (1) Treatment is possible in most patients with good acuity and few with poor acuity. (2) Treatment is...

Recent advances in the treatment of senile disciform macular degeneration by photocoagulation.

In senile disciform macular degeneration the retina and pigment epithelium are elevated by serous fluid, which arises from subpigment epithelial fibrovascular tissue originating from the choroid. Disciform macular degeneration was described in the igth century (Oeller, I893) and yet by 1939, when the "Text-Book of Ophthalmology" was being written, Duke-Elder (I940) could find only I30 cases in ...

Treatment of senile disciform macular degeneration: a single-blind randomised trial by argon laser photocoagulation. The Moorfields Macular Study Group.

A Case of Juvenile Disciform Macular Degeneration

The juvenile disciform macular degeneration is a non-inflammatory condition occurring in young people during the second and third decades tending to resolve in the course of a few months. de Schweinitz (1926), Junius (1930), and Davis and Sheppard (1935) have described cases ?f macular lesion similar to the senile disciform degeneration occurring in young subjects. The ophthalmoscopic examinati...

Photocoagulation of disciform macular lesions with krypton laser.

Ten vascular disciform mucular lesions were treated by krypton laser photocoagulation. In 8 the lesion resolved after therapy, and in 7 the retina remained flat for 6 months. On those patients treated successfully 6 had a visual acuity of 6/12 or better. The morphology of the laser lesion differed from that of the argon lesion in that there is no evidence of thermal coagulation of the inner ret...