title: Complications of argon laser retinal buckling performed in myopic subjects presenting rhegmatogenous degenerations.
abstract: Twenty-two eyes of twenty-two patients suffering from retinal peripheral degenerations underwent preventive equatorial buckling with argon laser photocoagulation. The fellow eye was used as control. We evaluated the effects of laser photocoagulation on corneal sensitivity, on accommodation, on pupillary diameter and light reflex. In the postoperative period, up to the 3rd month, results were significant with respect to the control eye. The mechanisms to which the onset of these undesired alterations is due are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Menchini
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Davì
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Leoni
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Azzolini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Brancato
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000528:radiation effects; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D003315:Cornea / Q000528:radiation effects; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007834:Lasers / Q000009:adverse effects; D008028:Light Coagulation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000150:complications*; D011680:Pupil / Q000528:radiation effects; D012025:Reflex, Pupillary / Q000528:radiation effects; D012162:Retinal Degeneration / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*