Peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome treated with dexamethasone implant: A case report.
Eur J Ophthalmol
; : 11206721241254132, 2024 May 15.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To describe a case of peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS) in a diabetic patient with cystoid macular edema (CME), treated with intravitreal dexamethasone implant (IDI) injection. This report also illustrates the history of the disease after repeated IDI and dexamethasone topical treatment.METHODS:
A case report.RESULTS:
A 77-year old male patient with PPS and good diabetic control was treated with dexamethasone implant for CME. After an initial morphofunctional improvement associated with a first IDI, the disease relapsed after the second dexamethasone implant injection. This was associated with a significant increase in both intraretinal fluid and choroidal thickness, with subsequent visual acuity (VA) decrease. At this point, a topical dexamethasone treatment was performed and, despite a morphological improvement, VA worsened compared with baseline, likely because of anatomical damage.CONCLUSION:
In this report, the importance of the recognition of PPS is underlined and the possible occurrence of a "rebound" effect due to repeated IDI is described.
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Eur J Ophthalmol
Ano de publicação:
2024
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