Effects of external counterpulsation combined with laser photocoagulation for treatment of non - proliferative diabetic retinopathy / 国际眼科杂志(Guoji Yanke Zazhi)

ABSTRACT

AIM: To investigate the effects of external counterpulsation combined with laser photocoagulation for treatment of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy. METHODS: A prospective study method were used from Aug. 2013 to Feb. 2016. A total of 104 cases in our hospital for treatment of non - proliferative stage of diabetic retinopathy patients were selected as the research object, and all the patients were equally divided into observation group and control group, 52 cases in each group according to the order of admission. Patients in control group were treated with panretinal laser photocoagulation treatment. The observation group were given external counterpulsation combined with laser photocoagulation for treatment, observed the prognosis in the two groups. RESULTS: The total efficiency in the observation group and the control group were 98. 1% and 84. 6%, the observation group was significantly higher than the control group (P0. 05). CONCLUSION: External counterpulsation combined with laser photocoagulation treatment has good safety in the treatment of non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy, it can promote eye artery blood flow speed, thereby improve the therapeutic effect.