Casalino, G;
Sivagnanavel, V;
Dowlut, S;
Keane, PA;
Chakravarthy, U;
(2019)
Spontaneous retinal pigment epithelial tear in type 2 choroidal neovascularization: Repair mechanisms following anti-VEGF therapy.
International Journal of Retina and Vitreous
, 5
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, Article 4. 10.1186/s40942-019-0155-1.
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: To report the clinical course and the multimodal retinal imaging of a spontaneous retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) tear in a type 2 choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to age-related macular degeneration treated with anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatment. CASE PRESENTATION: A 74 year-old man presented with visual acuity deterioration in the right eye. Multimodal retinal imaging showed a predominantly classic (type 2) CNV complicated by a spontaneous RPE tear. The patient received six intravitreal injections of anti-VEGF which resulted in improvement of the vision and stabilization of the neovascular lesion on optical coherence tomography (OCT). Longitudinal changes of the RPE-photoreceptors interface, including RPE splitting, are reported on OCT. CONCLUSION: RPE tears may spontaneously occur in type 2 CNV. Anti-VEGF treatment should be aimed at promoting RPE repair and limiting the extent of the scarring. The mechanisms of RPE repair during treatment may be documented with OCT.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Spontaneous retinal pigment epithelial tear in type 2 choroidal neovascularization: Repair mechanisms following anti-VEGF therapy |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1186/s40942-019-0155-1 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s40942-019-0155-1 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| Keywords: | Age-related macular degeneration, Anti-VEGF therapy, Choroidal neovascularization, Multimodal retinal imaging, Repair mechanism, Retinal pigment epithelial tear |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Institute of Ophthalmology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126946 |
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