title: Surgical management of exudative maculopathies: preliminary report.
abstract: A new surgical approach to the management of exudative maculopathies has been developed including the transvitreal route. As a result of surgery the subretinal spaces are drained and their viscous content removed. A special tool was designed for this operation. The method has been clinically tested on 32 patients (32 eyes) with different forms of age-related macular degeneration in the phase of complicated pigment epithelium detachment and on six patients (six eyes) with myopic exudative maculopathy. The follow-up ranged from 6 to 32 months. No fluid reappeared in the macular zone in patients with age-related macular degeneration, except one; visual function improved in 26 out of 32 cases (81.3%). Similar results were obtained in all six patients with myopic exudative maculopathy.
authors.affiliation: State Institute for Eye Diseases, Moscow, Russia.
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Krasnov
authors.forename: G E
authors.initials: GE
authors.lastname: Stolyarenko
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000375:Aging; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D005654:Fundus Oculi; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009885:Ophthalmology / Q000295:instrumentation; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000601:surgery*; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D014792:Visual Acuity