Asensio-Sánchez VM. SD-OCT findings in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.
ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015;
91:23-6. [PMID:
26621225 DOI:
10.1016/j.oftal.2015.07.006]
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Abstract
OBJECTIVE
To examine patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) to characterise and locate the PCV lesions.
PATIENTS AND METHODS
A series of 15 eyes of 10 patients diagnosed with PCV were examined. All eyes were imaged with macular SD-OCT.
RESULTS
SD-OCT cross-sectional scan findings included atypical and typical pigment epithelial detachments (PEDs). Polyps and neovascularisation were located above Bruch membrane. All 15 eyes (100%) showed sub-retinal fluid (SRF) in association with PEDs.
CONCLUSION
These SD-OCT findings located the vascular lesions of PCV in the sub-retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) space, and strongly suggest that PCV is a variant of type 1 neovascularization.
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