title: Idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (IPCV) is uncommon condition. It is considered to be a variant of neovascular age-related macular degeneration, but it can be also found in younger patients.
  
  
  METHODS
  We presented a case of otherwise healthy, 36-year-old women, with sudden unilateral visual impairment in the left eye and metamorphosia. Slit lamp biomicroscopy examination of the eye anterior segment was normal. Intraocular pressure determined by aplanation tonometry was 16 mmHg in both eyes. Indirect slit lamp biomicroscopy examination showed signs of serosanquinous detachments of the retinal pigment epithelium. Fluorescein angiography showed a subretinal vessel network through the pigment epithelial atrophy with hyperfluorescence in superior part of serohemorrhagic pigment epithelial detachment and the inferior hypofluorescence, caused by hemorrhage. Optical coherence tomography proved detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In patients with IPCV a mild, natural course with spontaneous resorption of exudations and hemorrhage and improvement in visual acuity can be observed. There is no approved treatment at present.
authors.affiliation: Clinical Centre Nis, Eye Clinic, Nis, Serbia. sonjaziv@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Sonja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Cekić
authors.forename: Dijana
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Risimić
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Jovanović
authors.forename: Jasmina Djordjević
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Jocić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002829:Choroid / Q000098:blood supply*; D015862:Choroid Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002832:Choroid Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000175:diagnosis; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000175:diagnosis*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence