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| Year : 2008 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 58 |
Author's reply
SA Issa, Q Qasem
Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9JA, United Kingdom
Correspondence Address:
S A Issa
Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 9JA
United Kingdom
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0022-3859.39198
How to cite this article:
Issa S A, Qasem Q. Author's reply. J Postgrad Med 2008;54:58 |
Sir,
I would like to thank the author for his interest in our case report. [1] I would like to reply on the author's comments:
- We have already classified our case as a non-ischemic central retinal vein occlusion in a previous reply. [2]
- In this case, we applied a focal scatter of macular argon laser which is not typically by definition a "macular grid". This is the reason we described it as focal laser treatment.
- In our case, argon laser treatment resulted in complete resolution of macular oedema. This complete resolution of macular oedema resulted in improvement of visual acuity from 6/12 to 6/6.
- This was the first time that we have tried macular laser treatment in such a case and the quick resolution of the patient's macular oedema and restoration of vision to 6/6 was in favor of our conclusion.
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| 1. | Issa SA, Qasem Q. Central retinal vein occlusion associated with thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura/haemolytic uraemic syndrome: Complete resolution is possible. J Postgrad Med 2007;53:183-4.  |
| 2. | Issa SA. Author's reply on Natural history of non-ischaemic CRVO versus iatrogenic intervention. J Postgrad Med 2007;53:270. |
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