OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY ANGIOGRAPHY CHARACTERISTICS OF POLYPOIDAL CHOROIDAL VASCULOPATHY SECONDARY TO CHRONIC CENTRAL SEROUS CHORIORETINOPATHY.
Retina
; 39(9): 1693-1700, 2019 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To report diagnostic capability of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) in detecting polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and its morphologic characteristics in white patients with chronic central serous chorioretinopathy.METHODS:
Retrospective consecutive series of 20 eyes (17 consecutive patients) with a diagnosis of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy secondary to chronic central serous chorioretinopathy based on clinical and multimodal imaging were included. All patients underwent a complete ophthalmologic examination, including best-correct visual acuity, fundus autofluorescence, fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, and OCTA.RESULTS:
In all eyes (100%), OCTA revealed the branching vascular network as a hyperflow lesion in both choriocapillaris and outer retina layers. Segmentation of the choriocapillaris in OCTA, in correspondence of the polypoidal dilation detected at indocyanine green angiography, showed a hyperflow round structure in 75% of cases and hypoflow round structure in 15%. Two of 20 eyes (10%) had no detectable polyps on OCTA.CONCLUSION:
Optical coherence tomography angiography is a noninvasive imaging modality allowing a good visualization of both branching vascular network and polyp dilations. Our findings suggest that OCTA is a useful tool in the investigation of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy complicated by polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Asunto principal:
Neovascularización Coroidal
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Coriorretinopatía Serosa Central
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
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Evaluation_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Límite:
Aged
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Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
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En
Revista:
Retina
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Italia