Pérez ALJ, Román GC, Herrera MM, Barrientos CA, Leyva CAM

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ABSTRACT

Objective: to describe the possible effects on the retinal pigmentary epithelium after the first application of the Cuban multitherapeutic treatment for patients with retinitis pigmentosa.
Methods: a prospective, longitudinal and descriptive study of 32 patients with retinitis pigmentosa, who had received the Cuban multi-therapeutic treatment for this disease. There was used Heidelberg Retinal Angiograph- 2 to perform infrared laser scanning confocal ophthalmoscopy in order to take and process images from the medial layer of the choroidal vessels before, 15 days, and one year after treatment. The results were analyzed with Statistica 6.0 and SPSS 15.0 on Windows.
Results: one year after the treatment, 6 right eyes and 5 left eyes showed insignificant differences with increase of one milimicra when making a comparison of the results of the three testing moments of the study. At the same time, 4 right eyes and 4 left eyes showed insignificant decrease of one milimicra. The rest of the 45 studied eyes did not change the results of the research study.
Conclusion: the Cuban multitherapeutic treatment for retinitis pigmentosa is an alternative that preserves the retinal pigmentary epithelium.

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