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. 1988 Jun;72(6):401–405. doi: 10.1136/bjo.72.6.401

Panretinal cryotherapy in neovascular disease.

S A Vernon 1, H Cheng 1
PMCID: PMC1041469  PMID: 2455538

Abstract

Panretinal cryotherapy (PRC) was used to treat 15 eyes with rubeosis, nine of which had established neovascular glaucoma, and seven eyes with proliferative diabetic retinopathy. The rubeosis regressed, with preservation of vision and return to normal of intraocular pressure, in all but one eye. With one exception all eyes with proliferative retinopathy also showed new vessel regression after treatment. PRC may be considered an effective alternative to retinal photocoagulation in the treatment of advanced rubeosis, early rubeotic glaucoma, and in certain circumstances proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

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