Search results for "Eales disease"

Morbus Eales – 10 Jahre Erfahrung mit einem seltenen Krankheitsbild

2009

BACKGROUND: Eales’ disease is an uncommon vasoproliferative retinal disease affecting otherwise healthy young men. We report on our treatment results in a large patients group with long-term follow-up. PATIENTS AND METHODS: The treatment results in 50 eyes (35 patients) with Eales’ disease, that were cosecutively treated from May 1995 to August 2005, were analysed retrospectively. Recorded data included age, sex, race, association of systemic disease, medications, laboratory evaluation and the surgical treatment. Mean follow-up was 5.8 years (minimum: 3.2, maximum: 8.6 years). RESULTS: Systemic and laboratory evaluations detected a factor V Leiden mutation (4 × ), vestibuloauditory problems…