title: [The diode laser and diabetic maculopathy].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Revealing the diode laser therapy's results in the diabetic macular edema.
  
  
  METHODS
  The diabetic retinopathies in which macular photocoagulation has been performed (between Sept. 1996-Sept. 1998) are analyzed. The cases were selected according the ophthalmoscopy appearance: clinical significant macular edema. The technical features and the clinical and functional parameters' evolution after the treatment are described.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Visual acuity's evolution has been stationary in 80% of cases. No complication during or after the macular photocoagulation with the diode laser has occurred.
authors.affiliation: Clinica Oftalmologică Cluj-Napoca.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nicoară
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kaucsar
mesh_terms: D003930:Diabetic Retinopathy / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008266:Macula Lutea / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D008269:Macular Edema / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity