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Peripheral proliferative retinopathies

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The cases of 100 consecutive persons (156 eyes) seen with peripheral proliferative retinopathy were reviewed in a retrospective fashion. Associated systemic and ocular diseases included sickling hemoglobinopathies (49%), branch retinal vein obstruction (20%), diabetes mellitus (9%), sarcoidosis (4%), intravenous drug abuse (4%), the ocular ischemic syndrome (1%), pars planitis (1%), Coats' disease (1%) and retinitis pigmentosa/retinal detachment (1%). In ten (10%) patients no obvious cause for the development of new blood vessel growth could be ascertained.

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  1. the Retina Vascular Unit, Retina Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Thomas Jefferson University, 910 E. Willow Grove Avenue, 19118, Philadelphia, PA, USA

    Gary C. Brown M.D., Robert H. Brown & Melissa M. Brown

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Supported in part by the Retina Research and Development Fund, Philadelphia, USA.

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Brown, G.C., Brown, R.H. & Brown, M.M. Peripheral proliferative retinopathies. Int Ophthalmol 11, 41–50 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02027896

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