surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina
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photocoagulation::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process |
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photocoagulation
Assists the ophthalmologists in performing laser photocoagulation and minor procedures such as lid lesion removal.
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Laser photocoagulation can result in some loss of vision, because it destroys some of the nerve cells in the retina.
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Since its market introduction in 2006, PASCAL photocoagulation procedures have been performed on thousands of patients worldwide.
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The potential neuroprotective effects of weekly treatment with glatiramer acetate in diabetic patients after panretinal photocoagulation.
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One treatment for diabetic macular edema is focal laser photocoagulation, which can reduce leakage over months or years, but it not effective in all patients.
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If one develops severe disease, the most common initial treatment is laser photocoagulation, where a laser beam is used to treat the retina to stop the growth of the blood vessels and the leakage.
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Floaters and streaks that blur vision provide a warning sign of this advanced form of diabetic retinopathy, so it is important to institute scatter laser photocoagulation, a nonpainful procedure.
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- Surgical procedure that uses an intense laser beam to destroy diseased retinal tissue or to make a scar that will hold the retina in cases of detached retina
- A treatment for diabetic retinopathy. A strong beam of light (laser) is used to seal off bleeding blood vessels in the eye and to burn away extra blood vessels that should not have grown there.
- Focusing of powerful light rays onto tiny spots on the back of the eye, producing heat, which seals retina l tears and cauterizes small blood vessels.
- Use of heat from a high-energy laser to seal off bleeding in damaged tissue. Photocoagulation also may prevent formation of abnormal blood vessels (neovascularization) in eye diseases such as age-related macular degeneration or diabetic retinopathy. ...
- (Gr. photos =light + L. coagulatio =clot)
- Is the application of a laser beam to burn or destroy selected intraocular structures, e.g., abnormal blood vessels or tumors, or to create new fluid passages.
- The use of laser light to destroy blood vessels that supply nutrients to the tumour.
- A surgical process of sealing off, or clotting, tissue by means of a laser beam. It is used in cancer treatment to destroy blood vessels entering a tumor and deprive it of nutrients, in the treatment of a detached retina, to destroy abnormal blood vessels in the retina, to treat tumors in the ...
- The coagulation (clotting) of tissue using a laser which produces light in the visible green wavelength that is selectively absorbed by hemoglobin, the pigment in red blood cells, in order to seal off bleeding blood vessels
