Clinical outcomes and predictors of response to photodynamic therapy in symptomatic circumscribed choroidal hemangioma: A retrospective case series
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[Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma treated with photodynamic therapy].
CLINICAL CASE A 45-year-old male referred with a scotoma in the left eye of 2 months' evolution. A peripapillary tumor was found, with a basal diameter of 7 mm and thickness 3.4 mm. It was diagnosed as a circumscribed choroidal hemangioma. It was decided to treat the patient using photodynamic therapy. After 4 sessions and 17 months follow-up, the patient remained asymptomatic and visual acuity...
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CASE REPORTS The clinical characteristics of three patients with circumscribed choroidal haemangioma and subfoveal exudation detected by optical coherence tomography are described in this paper. The three patients were successfully treated with photodynamic therapy. DISCUSSION Photodynamic therapy is the most adequate therapeutic option for circumscribed choroidal hemangioma associated with s...
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Aim: To investigate the safety and efficacy of photodynamic therapy with verteporfin in patients with choroidal haemangioma. Methods: A non-randomised, prospective clinical investigation of 19 patients with symptomatic circumscribed choroidal haemangioma was performed. Unsuccessful pretreatment (external beam irradiation, laser photocoagulation) was performed in four patients. Patients were inc...
متن کاملPhotodynamic therapy of circumscribed choroidal haemangioma.
AIM To evaluate efficacy of verteporfin ocular photodynamic therapy (PDT) in treatment of 10 patients with a symptomatic circumscribed choroidal haemangioma. DESIGN Prospective non-randomised, interventional case series and critical review of previously published studies. METHODS 10 consecutive patients (seven primary, two failed transpupillary thermotherapy (TTT), and one failed external b...
متن کاملCircumscribed Choroidal Hemangioma
Circumscribed choroidal hemangioma is an uncommon, benign vascular tumor manifesting as an orange-red mass in the posterior pole of the eye. Serous retinal detachment accounts for decreased vision in most patients. Diagnosis of this tumor is challenging with many patients initially misdiagnosed with choroidal melanoma or metastasis. Several ancillary tests such as ultrasonography, fluorescein a...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLOS ONE
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197088