A 8 months indocyanine angiographic follow-up of a patient with serpiginous choroidopathy

Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol. 1997:265:29-33.

Abstract

Background: Serpiginous choroidopathy is a rare progressive disorder which affects both the choroid and the retinal pigment epithelium.

Purpose: To analyze the fluorescein and indocyanine green angiographic evolution in a patient affected by serpiginous choroidopathy with a one year follow-up.

Methods: A patient affected by serpiginous choroidopathy was examined with fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography with a follow-up of 8 months.

Conclusion: Fluorescein angiography shows clearly the active and healed lesions in serpiginous choroidopathy while indocyanine green angiography seems to be more useful in detecting the extent of the choroidal involvement and may prove to be a useful tool in indicating the direction of future disease extension.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Atrophy
  • Choroid / pathology
  • Choroid Diseases / diagnosis*
  • Cicatrix / pathology
  • Coloring Agents*
  • Disease Progression
  • Fluorescein Angiography / methods
  • Follow-Up Studies
  • Humans
  • Indocyanine Green*
  • Male
  • Pigment Epithelium of Eye / pathology
  • Retina / pathology
  • Wound Healing

Substances

  • Coloring Agents
  • Indocyanine Green