Macular edema. Miscellaneous.

Abstract

This chapter provides the reader with practical information to be applied to the various remaining causes of macular edema. Some clinical cases of macular edema linked to ocular diseases like postradiotherapy for ocular melanomas remained of poor functional prognosis due to the primary disease. On the contrary, macular edema occurring after retinal detachment or after diverse systemic or local treatment use is often temporary. Macular edema associated with epiretinal membranes or vitreomacular traction is the main cause of poor functional recovery. In other cases, as in tractional myopic vitreoschisis, the delay to observe a significant improvement of the vision after surgery should be long. Finally, macular edema associated with hemangiomas or macroaneurysms should be treated, if symptomatic, using the same current treatment as in diabetic macular edema or exudative macular degeneration.

• Authors: Catherine Creuzot-Garcher, Sebastian Wolf
• Journal: Developments in ophthalmology (Dev Ophthalmol) Vol. 47 Pg. 183-198 ( 2010) ISSN: 1662-2790 [Electronic] Switzerland
• PMID: 20703051 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
• Copyright: 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel

Chemical References

• Angiogenesis Inhibitors

Topics

• Angiogenesis Inhibitors (therapeutic use)
• Diabetic Retinopathy (complications)
• Epiretinal Membrane (complications)
• Eye Neoplasms (complications)
• Fluorescein Angiography
• Fundus Oculi
• Humans
• Macular Edema (diagnosis, etiology, therapy)
• Prognosis
• Tomography, Optical Coherence
• Vitrectomy (methods)