Successful photodynamic therapy combined with laser photocoagulation in three eyes with classic subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation affecting two patients with multifocal choroiditis: case reports.
Multifocal choroiditis (MC) is an idiopathic choroidal inflammatory disease affecting young subjects. Secondary choroidal--and often central--neovascularisation is a frequent complication leading to a poor visual prognosis. Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has now proven to be successful to treat classic subfoveal choroidal neovascularisation in age-related macular degeneration and in pathologic myopia. We describe the treatment applied to classic choroidal neovascularisation in two young women with MC, two eyes with subfoveal neovascular membrane and one eye in which new vessels encroach the foveal avascular zone. PDT has been useful in the three reported eyes, with stable or improved visual acuity. In two of them, it even made the membrane retract and become extrafoveal, allowing a secondary treatment using conventional laser.
Coquelet
P
P
Dept. of Ophthalmology, Brugmann and Saint-Pierre University Hospitals, Brussels.
Postelmans
L
L
Snyers
B
B
Verougstraete
C
C
D000328:Adult; D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002833:Choroiditis / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation / Q000379:methods*; D010778:Photochemotherapy / Q000379:methods*