Table 1

Characteristics of the 10 patients treated for Coats’ disease

No.	Age,years*	Presenting visual acuity	Latest visual acuity	Number of quadrants with telangiect-asia*	Retinal detachment*	Macular findings*	Surgery	Treatment during follow-up	Follow-up,years	Comments and status
*At time of presentation to ophthalmologist.
C, cryopexy; CF, counts fingers; G, 15% C₃F₈ gas exchange; I, indirect laser photocoagulation; HM, hand motions; LP, light perception; ?LP, presumed light perception; M, preretinal membrane peel; NLP, no light perception; O, intraocular silicone oil; P, posterior sclerotomy with subretinal fluid drainage; R, retinotomy with subfoveal fibrovascular membrane removal; RD, retinal detachment; SR, subretinal; TPDL, trans-pupillary diode laser; V, vitreous infusion; Vt, vitrectomy.
1	6	20/300	20/60	2	Inferior	Fibrosis	V, P, C	TPDL 1 month	3	Chronic inferior RD
		(fig 1)			bullous			postop for		with SR fibrosis
								recurrent lesion
2	5	NLP	NLP	4	Total	Exudate	V, P, C	None	2.5	Phthisical, dense
					bullous					white cataract
3	1.8	?LP	NLP	3	Total	Exudate	V, P, C	Recurrence of	1
								exudative
								detachment,
								declined
								further
								treatment
4	3	?LP	NLP	3	Total	Exudate	V, P, C	None	2	Periorbital cellulitis,
					bullous					persistent SR fibrosis
5	3	LP	NLP	4	Total bullous	Fibrosis	V, P, C	None	2	Persistent SR fibrosis
6	2.5	NLP	HM	3	Total	Exudate	1) V, P, C	Second surgery at	4.5	Silicone oil in-situ,
					bullous		2) Vt, M,	4 months for		persistent SR fibrosis
							I, O	persistent RD
7	7	CF 1 foot	20/200	2	Temporal	Organised	Vt, R, G, I	None	1
		(30.48 cm)				subretinal
						fibrosis
8	7	LP (fig 2)	NLP	4	Total	Fibrosis	Vt, P, C, M	3 laser	4	Chronic tractional
					bullous					detachment and
										preretinal fibrosis
9	6	CF 4 feet	20/300	1	No	Fibrosis	None	1 cryopexy	2
		(1.23 m)
10	4.5	20/40⁻²	20/300	1	No	Exudate	None	2 laser	1