Abstract
We compared the effects of argon and diode laser endophotocoagulation on blood-retinal barrier breakdown using real-time magnetic resonance imaging following intravenous gadolinium-diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (Gd-DTPA) injection. Endophotocoagulation was performed on eyes of pigmented rabbits with either the argon or the diode laser to produce ophthalmoscopically similar lesions. Magnetic resonance imaging studies were performed either 2 or 7 days after laser treatment, and coronal T1-weighted proton images were obtained in the first 20 minutes following Gd-DTPA injection. The mean signal intensity over a region of interest in the vitreous cavity was analyzed, and an initial rate analysis was performed on each time-course curve. Two days after treatment, argon laser-treated eyes showed significantly greater leakage of Gd-DTPA than diode laser-treated eyes. The leakage in both groups was substantially reduced by posttreatment day 7. Histopathologic examination performed 2 days following photocoagulation showed less damage of the retinal pigment epithelium and more severe occlusion of the choriocapillaris and deep choroidal vessels in diode laser-treated eyes. These changes may serve to explain the observed differences in Gd-DTPA leakage.
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