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22nd Annual Meeting of the German Retina Society

German Retina Society

26.06. - 27.06.2009, Berlin

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Selective Retina Therapy (SRT): principle, clinical results and perspective

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  • Reginald Birngruber - University of Luebeck, Institut for Biomedical Optics
  • R. Brinkmann - University of Luebeck, Institut for Biomedical Optics
  • J. Roider - University Eye Clinic Kiel

German Retina Society. 22nd Annual Meeting of the German Retina Society. Berlin, 26.-27.06.2009. Düsseldorf: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House; 2009. DocRG2009-15

doi: 10.3205/09rg15, urn:nbn:de:0183-09rg154

This is the English version of the article.
The German version can be found at: http://www.egms.de/de/meetings/rg2009/09rg15.shtml

Published: June 29, 2009

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SRT, a new modality to treat malfunction of the Retinal Pigment-epithelium (RPE) uses repetitive (100 Hz) short) laser pulses (1.7 µs) in the green spectrum (532 nm). The basics of selective thermo-mechanical effects in the RPE including potential cellular and sub-cellular mechanisms will be presented. Clinical results in the treatment of diabetic macula oedema (DME) are being shown and further potential treatment fields will be discussed.