2018 - 5 Issue

Case report

Pachychoroid Disease of the Macula – Case Report

Alexandr Stěpanov ORCID
Jan Studnička ORCID – Naďa Jirásková

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DOI: 10.31348/2018/5/6

Published in Czech and Slovak Ophtalmology: 2018 - 5

Published on website: 27.03.2019

Keywords: pachychoroid disease of the macula, choroidal neovascular membrane, choroid, EDI-OCT

Summary

Pachychoroid disease of the macula includes four stages: pachychoroid pigment epitelopathy, central serous chorioretinopathy, pachychoroid neovasculopathy, and polypoid choroidal vasculopathy. Their basic common features are increase in choroidal thickness ≥ 300 μm, pathologically dilated choroidal vessels in the Haller’s layer with thinning of Sattle's layer and choriocapillaris layer. We report the case of a woman at the age of sixty-one, in which we have monitored the complete development of this disease within 8 years.

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