[Cortisone treatment of arteriosclerotic chorioretinopathy - a catamnestic study (author's transl)].

Visual acuity was tested in 34 patients (64 eyes), age 73.6 years, following systemic cortisone administration. A significant improvement in vision was found (82.81% and 67.19%) after three as well as after an average of ten months. It is remarkable that some of the patients (17 eyes), who were treated with vessel-active substances, and in some cases also with the vitamins A and E, also showed improvement in visual acuity comparable with the group treated with cortison only. In the small group (six eyes) with moist macular degeneration a slight improvement was only recorded in one case. The probable effects of cortisone in the course of arteriosclerotic chorioretinopathy are explained with the aid of histological findings of other authors.