Vaskulárna medicína 3-4/2012

Retinal vein occlusion

Retinal vein occlusion (RVO) is one of the most common vascular disorders of retina. According to the location there are two main types of RVO: branch retinal vein occlusion (BRVO) and central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) with its ischaemic and non-ischaemic subtype. Retinal neovascularisation is considered to be the most serious and dreaded complication of ischaemic RVO leading to definitive loss of vision. There are many treatment methods in RVO described in the literature, but none of them seams to be both enough effective and safe up to now. Today therefore the therapy is concentrated on RVO complications (macular edema and retinal neovascularisation). We present in this article review of contemporary literature focused on the epidemiology, etiopathogenesis, diagnostics and treatment possibilities in retinal vein occlusion.

Keywords: retinal vein occlusion, diagnostics, therapy.