Bull Soc Belge Ophtalmol
February 2010
A 61-year-old woman is referred for bilateral diabetic macular edema. Her visual acuity is 20/70 in the right eye and 20/50 in the left eye. She presents a macular edema on both eyes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To analyse short term visual outcomes and macular morphologic changes associated with intravitreal injection of bevacizumab (Avastin) therapy for subfoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration (AMD) METHOD: Retrospective study of 59 eyes. Each included eye received 3 intravitreal injections of 1.25 mg bevacizumab at 4 to 6-week intervals.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To report choroidal metastasis from the newly described nested variant of urothelial carcinoma of the bladder as the initial presentation of metastatic disease.
Methods: A 58-year-old man with a history of urothelial bladder carcinoma developed progressive decreased visual acuity in the right eye. Fundus examination showed an amelanotic choroidal tumor simulating a choroidal melanoma.
Purpose: To evaluate the safety and efficacy of photodynamic therapy in the management of symptomatic circumscribed choroidal hemangiomas (CCH) with exudative activity.
Patients And Methods: This prospective nonrandomized study included eight patients referred to us for management of CCH with exudative activity. PDT was applied by diode laser (689 nm) with a light dose of 100 J/cm2 and using verteporfin (6 mg/m2) IV bolus injection.