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REY ESTEVEZ, Blanca Nieve; VARELA GENER, Edith  e  GARCIA GALI, Madeline. Macular cystoid edema. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.9, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1029-3019.

The case reports of 2 patients with macular cystoid edema, caused by intraocular surgery (extracapsular extraction of the crystalline lens and intraocular lens) and conventional surgery for retinal detachment, among other causes, assisted in the Ophthalmologic Center of "Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso" teaching General Hospital in Santiago de Cuba are presented, with the purpose of analyzing the therapeutic effect of anti-inflammatory non-steroid drugs, topical and peribulbar corticoids, as well as evaluating the clinical course through the tomography of optic coherence. In both cases there was a great improvement of vision, with 0,6 and 0,5, respectively.

Palavras-chave : macular cystoid edema; intraocular surgery; retinal detachment; anti-inflammatory non-esteroid drugs; tomography of optic coherence; ophthalmologic center.