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Purpose: To study the relationship between exudative age-related macular degeneration and diabetic retino-pathy and assess the influence of retinal laser photo-coagulation for diabetic retinopathy on the occurrence of exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Methods: Two groups, one of diabetic retinopathy patients treated with laser and the other of non-laser-treated diabetic retinopathy patients, were studied by means of fundoscopy and fluorescein angiography for the presence of exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Results: Exudative age-related macular degeneration was not observed in 431 patients treated with laser photocoagulation, and was diagnosed in 3.3% of 151 non-laser-treated patients.
Conclusion: Patients treated by laser photocoagulation for diabetic retinopathy are less prone to develop the exudative form of age-related macular degeneration.
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Zylbermann, R., Landau, D., Rozenman, Y. et al. Exudative age-related macular degeneration in patients with diabetic retinopathy and its relation to retinal laser photocoagulation. Eye 11, 872–875 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1997.224
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