NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Functional and anatomical outcomes are similar after treatment with yellow micropulse (MP) laser or half-dose verteporfin photodynamic therapy (PDT) for chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR), according to results from a retrospective study.
“At this point, I would favor MP laser, as it is a cheaper option, less cumbersome to implement, and appears to have less adverse events,” Dr. Lihteh Wu from Asociados de Macula Vitreo y Retina de Costa Rica, San Jose, told Reuters Health by email.
Dr. Wu and colleagues in the Pan-American Collaborative Retina Study (PACORES) group compared outcomes of chronic CSCR treated with yellow MP laser versus half-dose verteporfin PDT in their multicenter, retrospective study of 159 eyes.
Mean follow-up was 15.8 months for the 92 eyes treated with MP laser and 17.4 months for the 67 eyes treated with half-dose verteporfin PDT, according to the February 8 British Journal of Ophthalmology online report.
The mean best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) improved from 0.41 logMAR at baseline to 0.21 logMAR at 12 months after laser treatment, whereas the mean BCVA did not improve at any time point in the half-dose PDT group.
In contrast, mean central macular thickness (CMT) improved to a similar extent with MP laser (from 402 micrometers at baseline to 303 micrometers at last follow-up) and with verteporfin PDT (from 352 to 215 micrometers).
Subfoveal central thickness also improved to a similar extent in the two treatment groups.
Significantly more eyes in the MP laser group (17.4%) than in the verteporfin PDT group (9%) were retreated during follow-up.
No adverse events were attributable to the MP laser treatment, whereas one eye in the half-dose verteporfin PDT group developed choroidal neovascularization (CNV) 4 weeks after treatment.
“In many places in the world, PDT is not readily available, so MP laser is a viable alternative for chronic CSCR,” Dr. Wu said.
Dr. Ron P. Gallemore from Retina Macula Institute, Torrance, California, told Reuters Health by email, “I use micropulse laser in the majority of cases. If this fails, I use PDT but usually combine it with anti-VEGF therapy, since I believe that many such cases are associated with CNV.”
“A simpler technique is now available for the treatment of central serous retinopathy that is as safe and effective as PDT with less cost and greater availability,” he concluded. “Always give your patients treatment alternatives. Not all patients respond the same, and the greater options we have will allow us to achieve better results for more patients.”
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Br J Ophthalmol 2018.
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