[Diagnosis, monitoring and laser therapy of the classic form of choroidal neovascularization in patients with age-related macular degeneration]. / Diagnostika, sledování a laserová lécba klasické formy chorioideální neovaskularizace u pacientu s vekem podmínenou makulární degenerací.

The authors applied experience from studies conducted abroad pertaining to the diagnosis, follow-up and laser treatment of the classic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in patients with age-related macular degeneration. The group comprises 12 patients with CNV with an extrafoveolar localization who were treated by laser photocoagulation and another 12 patients investigated on account of CNV with a juxta and subfoveal localization. In the group of treated patients vision improved or became stabilized in 9 patients (75%), in the group of untreated patients it did not change in 3 (25%), the mean follow-up period being 11 and 13 months resp. The assembled results correspond with those published in the literature.