The aim of this study is to report 2-year visual
acuity and anatomic changes from baseline to 24 months
after conventional and modified focal macular
photocoagulation in eyes with chronic vascular macular
oedema1-3. Diabetes mellitus and retinal vein occlusion
are the main causes of chronic macular oedema and
those patients had no improvement of their visual
outcome after treating by Anti-VEGF drugs4,5.
Follow up of 98 eyes (of 82 patients) with chronic
diabetic and vein occlusion maculopathy who underwent
conventional and modified focal macular
photocoagulation guided by Fluorescein fundus
angiography6. All those patients had received different
types of Anti-VEGF drugs and had no improvement of
their visual acuity.
24 months follow -up there is a significant
improvement in the mean visual acuity outcome by 12
letters in 45 from 98 eyes (45.91%).The median central
subfield retinal thickness decreased by 82-95 microns
,median total macular volume decreases by 0.8mm3 and
median Fluorescein leakage area with conventional and
modified focal macular photocoagulation decreased by
1.1 disc areas.
38 eyes (84.44%) had stable improvement of visual
outcome and 6(13.35%) eyes had deterioration of their
baseline visual acuity and when repeated focal laser to
this group, there was 2 from 6eyes (33.33%) eyes had
Visual improvement.
More than 45.91% of eyes of patients had a
significant and stable improvement of visual acuity
outcome, OCT thickness, volume measurement and
decreased fluorescein leakage area that underwent both
conventional and modified focal macular laser.
More than 38 from 45 eyes (84.44%) of eyes had
stable visual outcome after focal macular Laser
treatment.
Keywords : Macula Oedema, Anti-VEGF Drugs, Focal Laser, Foveal Thickness.