title: [Proliferative diabetic retinopathy and pregnancy].
abstract: Twenty pregnant diabetics with proliferative diabetic retinopathy are described. Out of a total of 37 eyes, 18 were coagulated during pregnancy. Coagulation treatment before pregnancy was performed in 14 eyes. The morphologic aspect of the fundi at the end of pregnancy was unchanged or even better in 31 of the 37 eyes, as compared with the time before pregnancy. The best results were obtained in eyes which were sufficiently coagulated before pregnancy. Visual acuity at the end of pregnancy in 35 eyes was much the same as during pregnancy. It is concluded that from a ophthalmological point of view the inindication for therapeutic abortion in diabetics with dication for therapeutic abortion in diabetics with proliferative diabetic retinopathy is no longer tenable.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053685:Laser Therapy; D011247:Pregnancy; D011254:Pregnancy in Diabetics; D013997:Time Factors
vernacular_title: Proliferative diabetische Retinopathie und Schwangerschaft.