Clinical implications of pachyvessels in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) is one of the disorders within the pachychoroid spectrum diseases. The presence of pachyvessels is one of the characteristics of pachychoroid disorders. However, the relationship between the presence of pachyvessels and the clinical characteristics of PCV eyes has not been determined. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between the presence of choroidal pachyvessels and the clinical characteristics of eyes with PCV.

Methods

The medical records of patients who were diagnosed with PCV and were treatment-naïve were reviewed. Fluorescein and indocyanine green angiography, fundus photography, spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), and enhanced depth imaging OCT (EDI-OCT) were used to obtain

SUBMITTER: Ijuin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7191784 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature