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[Surgical removal of peripapillary choroidal neovascularization in young patients]
J M Ruiz-Moreno1, P Amat-Peral, F L Lugo
1Instituto Oftalmológico de Alicante, VISSUM, Unidad de Vítreo-Retina, Alicante, Spain.
Purpose:
To analyze anatomical and visual outcomes after subretinal surgery for peripapillary choroidal neovascularization (CNV) not associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Methods:
Five eyes from five patients with peripapillary CNV who had been treated by subretinal surgery were retrospectively analyzed.
Results:
The patients averaged 32 years of age (range, 11 to 49, SD 14.5 years) and mean follow-up was 31.4 months (range, 8 to 48, SD 20.8 months). Best corrected visual acuity was 0.05 (range, 0.001 to 0.16, SD 0.07) before surgery and 0.64 (range, 0.2 to 0.9, SD 0.26) after surgery (p=0.005; Student's t test for paired data). Neither intraoperative nor postoperative incidences occurred.
Conclusions:
Surgical removal may be considered one of the therapeutic options to treat peripapillary CNV not related to AMD.
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