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Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation
A 71-year-old woman with a history of blurred vision in her right eye for nearly two months came to our attention. A complete ophthalmological evaluation, including best-corrected visual acuity measurement, fundus examination, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, an...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10685085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38034243 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47942 |
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author | Carta, Valentina Lixi, Filippo Tatti, Filippo Peiretti, Enrico |
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description | A 71-year-old woman with a history of blurred vision in her right eye for nearly two months came to our attention. A complete ophthalmological evaluation, including best-corrected visual acuity measurement, fundus examination, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, and indocyanine green angiography, was performed. Multimodal imaging showed the presence of a polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) lesion surrounded by diffuse hard exudates in the macular area. Our patient received three monthly intravitreal injections of brolucizumab during the loading phase, followed by an intravitreal injection every eight weeks for a total of 48 weeks of follow-up. The therapy appeared to be effective for improving both visual and anatomical outcomes revealing an important regression of the PCV and an almost complete reabsorption of lipid exudates. Intravitreal brolucizumab could be considered an effective treatment in the management of lipid exudation in PCV patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-106850852023-11-30 Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation Carta, Valentina Lixi, Filippo Tatti, Filippo Peiretti, Enrico Cureus Ophthalmology A 71-year-old woman with a history of blurred vision in her right eye for nearly two months came to our attention. A complete ophthalmological evaluation, including best-corrected visual acuity measurement, fundus examination, spectral-domain optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography, and indocyanine green angiography, was performed. Multimodal imaging showed the presence of a polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV) lesion surrounded by diffuse hard exudates in the macular area. Our patient received three monthly intravitreal injections of brolucizumab during the loading phase, followed by an intravitreal injection every eight weeks for a total of 48 weeks of follow-up. The therapy appeared to be effective for improving both visual and anatomical outcomes revealing an important regression of the PCV and an almost complete reabsorption of lipid exudates. Intravitreal brolucizumab could be considered an effective treatment in the management of lipid exudation in PCV patients. Cureus 2023-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10685085/ /pubmed/38034243 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47942 Text en Copyright © 2023, Carta et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Ophthalmology Carta, Valentina Lixi, Filippo Tatti, Filippo Peiretti, Enrico Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title | Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title_full | Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title_fullStr | Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title_full_unstemmed | Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title_short | Effect of Intravitreal Brolucizumab in the Treatment of Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy With Foveal Lipid Exudation |
title_sort | effect of intravitreal brolucizumab in the treatment of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy with foveal lipid exudation |
topic | Ophthalmology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10685085/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38034243 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.47942 |
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