Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy 20 years after resolution of tubercular choroiditis

Digit J Ophthalmol. 2023 Sep 30;29(3):94-96. doi: 10.5693/djo.02.2023.07.003. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

We report the case of a 72-year-old white woman with blurring of vision in both eyes of 15 days' duration. She had a history of treatment for bilateral tuberculosis choroiditis 20 years before. She was diagnosed with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy in the right eye and inflammatory choroidal neovascular membrane in the left eye, based on multimodal imaging, including optical coherence tomography, fundus fluorescein angiography, and indocyanine green angiography. The right eye received 3 intravitreal injections of aflibercept and showed complete resolution. The left eye was treated with a single intravitreal injection of aflibercept.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors / therapeutic use
  • Choroid
  • Choroidal Neovascularization* / diagnosis
  • Choroidal Neovascularization* / drug therapy
  • Choroidal Neovascularization* / etiology
  • Choroiditis* / complications
  • Choroiditis* / diagnosis
  • Choroiditis* / drug therapy
  • Female
  • Fluorescein Angiography / methods
  • Humans
  • Intravitreal Injections
  • Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods

Substances

  • Angiogenesis Inhibitors