Abstract
PURPOSE: One-fourth of the patients with exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD) treated with an autologous retinal pigment epithelium (RPE)-choroid translocation had a hyperfluorescent optic disc with indocyanine green angiography (ICGA). This study aimed to identify whether indocyanine green (ICG)-assisted surgery was related to the hyperfluorescence of the optic disc with ICGA.
METHODS: Retrospective observational case series of 31 AMD patients treated with an RPE-choroid translocation and who had ICGA after surgery. The ICGAs were assessed for hypo/iso/hyperfluorescence of the optic disc and fluorescence was related to the time interval between ICGA and the possible use of intravitreal ICG.
RESULTS: The optic disc was hyperfluorescent in six patients, isofluorescent in one, and hypofluorescent in 24 patients. All hyperfluorescent optic discs and 7 of the 24 hypofluorescent optic discs were preceded with ICG-assisted surgery with a time interval of 7+/-3 weeks and 43+/-12 weeks, respectively (P=0.001, Student t-test). The other 17 hypofluorescent discs were not preceded by ICG-assisted surgery and the one isofluorescent optic disc was observed 32 weeks after ICG-assisted surgery.
CONCLUSION: There was a statistically significant correlation between intravitreal ICG use during surgery and a hyperfluorescent optic disc with ICGA in our patient group.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 819-21 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Eye (London, England) |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2009 |
Keywords
- Choroid/transplantation
- Coloring Agents
- Fluorescein Angiography/methods
- Fluorescence
- Humans
- Indocyanine Green
- Macular Degeneration/complications
- Optic Disk/pathology
- Retrospective Studies
- Transplantation, Autologous