Treatment of Intravitreal Bevacizumab Combined with Focal Laser Photocoagulation in the Case of Macular Telangiectasia Type 2 with Retinal Arterial Macroaneurysm

Overview

Journal Lasers Med Sci

Publisher Springer

Date 2018 Jul 21

PMID 30027424

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Authors

Gokhan Demir

Ozgur Artunay

Mehmet Emin Sucu

Ali Demircan

Dilek Yasa

Cengiz Alagoz

Mevlut Celal Ocal

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Abstract

Macular telangiectasia type 2 (Mac Tel 2) is a bilateral disease of unknown cause with characteristic changes of the retinal vasculature. To the best of our knowledge, we could not find any reported cases of Mac Tel 2 with retinal arterial macroaneurysm (RAM). Our aim is to report a case of Mac Tel 2 with RAM.

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