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The authors applied experience from studies conducted abroad pertaining to the diagnosis, follow-up and laser treatment of the classic choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in patients with age-related macular degeneration. The group comprises 12 patients with CNV with an extrafoveolar localization who were treated by laser photocoagulation and another 12 patients investigated on account of CNV with a juxta and subfoveal localization. In the group of treated patients vision improved or became stabilized in 9 patients (75%), in the group of untreated patients it did not change in 3 (25%), the mean follow-up period being 11 and 13 months resp. The assembled results correspond with those published in the literature.

The authors describe histological changes of the retina and chorioid in cytomegalovirus retinitis in a patient with manifest AIDS who died after a severe opportunic infection. Consistent with data in the literature, they describe in addition to necrotic changes also inflammatory manifestations in the retina and chorioid and the presence of intranuclear inclusions typical for CMV infection.

The authors describe an analysis of visual functions and subjective changes in 44 eyes of 22 patients with pigmentary dystrophy of the retina followed up for a period of 2 to 55 months. They performed the operation of choroid revascularization according to their own method on 37 eyes. The est results were achieved in relatively early stages of the disease and where the operation was performed beneath both horizontal muscles. They did not observe per- or postoperative complications during the observation period. They recommend the operation as part of comprehensive treatment of a disease as serious as pigmentary retinal dystrophy.