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Photodynamic Therapy for Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy
Abstract
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with Visudyne® was the first successful therapy for wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Clinical tests of PDT for wet AMD surprisingly showed a significantly better outcome for patients from Japan, Singapore, and China as compared to the results obtained on Caucasian patients. These differences pointed to the fact that patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), which is encountered more frequently in people with darker skin, had inadvertently been included among the AMD patients. As these two diseases are difficult to distinguish with the fluorescein angiography used in these trials, the switch to indocyanine green angiography (ICGA) then permitted the more specific and detailed study of PCV with Visudyne® therapy. The results of PCV treated with PDT turned out to be very good indeed, even though on the time scale of 1 year or more retreatment was needed in some patients. Anti-VEGF therapy by itself, however, did not show anywhere near the same benefit for treating PCV as was the case for the treatment of wet AMD. Recently, triple therapy with Visudyne®-PDT combined with anti-VEGF therapy and a steroid was found to give the best results for the visual acuity of patients with PCV. This chapter summarizes the data on PDT of PCV, and the effect of different combination therapies. Some of the pathological and genetic similarities and differences between PCV and wet AMD are also discussed.
Keywords
Age-related macular degeneration Antiangiogenic Choroidal neovascularization Optical coherence tomography Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy Visudyne®-photodynamic therapyAbbreviations
- AMD
Age-related macular degeneration
- AREDS
Age-related eye disease study
- BCVA
Best-corrected visual acuity
- BPDMA
Benzoporphyrin derivative monoacid ring A
- CNV
Choroidal neovascularization
- ELN
Elastin gene
- ETDRS
Early treatment diabetic retinopathy study
- ICGA
Indocyanine green angiography
- IVTA
Intra-vitreal triamcinolone acetonide
- OCT
Optical coherence tomography
- PCV
Polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy
- PED
Pigment epithelial detachment
- pO2
Partial pressure of oxygen
- RPED
Retinal pigmented epithelium detachement
- TTA
Triamcinolone acetonide
- VDA
Vascular disrupting agent
- VEGF-A
Vascular endothelial growth factor A
- V-PDT
Visudyne®-photodynamic therapy
Notes
Acknowledgments
The authors are grateful for financial support from Dr. J. Jacobi (to PNS).
Conflict of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
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