title: Multiple Intravitreal Ranibizumab Injections for Persistant Choroidal Neovascularization Associated with Presumed Ocular Histoplasmosis Syndrome.
abstract: Presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (POHS) is a clinical entity that is characterized by small, round, discrete, macular or mid peripheral atrophic (punched out) chorioretinal lesions (histo spots), peripapillary scarring, choroidal neovascularization (CNV), and the absence of anterior uveitis and vitritis. Diagnosis of this disorder is based upon characteristic clinical findings and a positive histoplasmin skin test or residence in an endemic region forHistoplasma capsulatum. There is no active systemic disease during diagnosis of POHS. Disciform scarring and macular CNV secondary to POHS is a well-known complication which leads to loss of visual acuity or visual disturbance. Without therapy, the visual prognosis in these patients is unfavorable. Submacular surgery, radiation, steroids, photodynamic therapy, and most recently anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy are current therapeutic options for this condition. We report a case with persistent CNV secondary to POHS in a middle-aged woman with moderate myopia and the clinical course of treatment with multiple intravitreal ranibizumab (Lucentis®, Novartis) injections.
authors.affiliation: İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Turgut
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.affiliation: İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seyhan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Dikci
authors.affiliation: İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Oğuzhan
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Genç
authors.affiliation: İnönü University Turgut Özal Medical Center, Department of Ophthalmology, Malatya, Turkey.
authors.forename: Kayhan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mutlu
keywords: choroidal neovascularization; histoplasmosis; intravitreal injection; ranibizumab