title: Photodynamic therapy of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.
abstract: Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy is an abnormality of the choroidal vasculature characterized by aneurysmal-like budding of the vessels with exudation and recurrent serosanguinous detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium. Treatment is limited to laser photocoagulation of leaking vessels, which is used when vision is decreased, or exudate and hemorrhage threaten or involve the fovea. This article describes a patient with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy successfully treated with photodynamic therapy using verteporfin.
authors.affiliation: New England Eye Center, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Adam H
authors.initials: AH
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: Paul B
authors.initials: PB
authors.lastname: Greenberg
authors.forename: Adam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martidis
authors.forename: Carmen A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Puliafito
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002829:Choroid / Q000098:blood supply* / Q000473:pathology; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D007368:Interferometry; D010778:Photochemotherapy / Q000379:methods*; D017319:Photosensitizing Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D011166:Porphyrins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D014054:Tomography / Q000379:methods; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D000077362:Verteporfin; D014792:Visual Acuity
chemical_list: D017319:Photosensitizing Agents; D011166:Porphyrins; D000077362:Verteporfin