TY - JOUR
TI - Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy associated with Doyne's familial
choroiditis: treatment with thermal laser
AU - Ladas, ID
AU - Karagiannis, DA
AU - Georgalas, I
AU - Rouvas, AA and
AU - Moschos, MM
AU - Apostolopoulos, M
JO - European Journal of Ophthalmology
PY - 2004
VL - 14
TODO - 3
SP - 264-268
PB - SAGE Publications Ltd
SN - 1120-6721, 1724-6016
TODO - 10.1177/112067210401400313
TODO - polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy; Doyne’s familial honeycomb
choroiditis; indocyanine green angiography; choroidal neovascularization
TODO - PURPOSE. To report the unusual occurrence of polypoidal choroidal
vasculopathy (PCV) in a patient with Doyne’s familial honeycomb
choroiditis (DFHC) and its course after laser treatment.
DESIGN. Interventional case report.
METHODS. Indocyanine green (ICG) angiography guided laser was performed
on active polypoidal lesions.
RESULTS. A 45-year-old man with a 15-year history of bilateral DFCH and
a scarred macular choroidal neovascularization in the right eye (RE) was
referred to us with exudative maculopathy in the left eye (LE). His
best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) was 201800 in the RE and 20140 in
the LE. ICG angiography revealed a picture that was characteristic for
PCV in both eyes. ICG guided argon green laser was performed on the
active parapapillary and perifoveal polypoidal lesions of the LE. Eight
months after the laser photocoagulation treatment, the macular exudative
lesions had subsided and the BCVA improved to 20/20. The favorable
anatomic and functional results have remained stable over 3 years.
CONCLUSIONS. This is, to our knowledge, the first case of a PCV that
occurred secondary to DFHC.
ER -