Indocyanine green angiography and idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

E ditor ,-Idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (IPCV) also known as "posterior uveal bleeding syndrome" or "serosanguineous detachments in black females" is an exudative macular degeneration characterised by a juxtapapillary branching choroidal network with surrounding po...

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Published in:British journal of ophthalmology 1998-01, Vol.82 (1), p.98-99
Main Authors: SCHNEIDER, ULRIKE, GELISKEN, FAIK, KREISSIG, INGRID
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Angiography
Choroid Diseases - diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Disease
Humans
Indocyanine Green
Letters to the Editor
Macular degeneration
Macular Degeneration - diagnosis
Male
Medical imaging
Middle Aged
Myopia
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Summary:E ditor ,-Idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (IPCV) also known as "posterior uveal bleeding syndrome" or "serosanguineous detachments in black females" is an exudative macular degeneration characterised by a juxtapapillary branching choroidal network with surrounding polypoidal excrescences associated with serous and haemorrhagic detachments of the neurosensory retina and pigment epithelium. 1-4 The patients are almost always black females in the fifth to seventh decade. [...]final visual acuities of the six treated eyes reached the same level as four of five untreated eyes. 1 ICGA with its improved imaging of the choroidal circulation accentuates the vascular polypoidal lesion 5 and allows differentiation between IPCV and CNV, an important distinction concerning the natural course, visual prognosis, and management of these diseases.
ISSN:0007-1161
1468-2079
DOI:10.1136/bjo.82.1.98