[Critical evaluation of the treatment of diabetic retinopathy based on personal experience]. / Krytyczna ocena leczenia retinopatii cukrzycowej w oparciu o material wlasny.

The authors present the results of analysis of the treatment of 184 patients (360 eyes) with diabetic retinopathy; it comprises as well the out-patients as the in-patients divided into 4 groups in dependence on the changes and the treatment applied (laser focused photocoagulation, panretinal photocoagulation, cryopexy) the majority of patients reported to the hospital with an advanced proliferative diabetic retinopathy and this allowed only the performance of a panretinal photocoagulation and in a part of cases only cryopexy. The attention is called to the necessity of an early detection of pathological changes and of an early treatment.