Age related macular degeneration (AMD) is a common disease. Angiography with fluorescein and indocyanine green (ICG) respectively is a proven diagnostic tool, which enables to diagnose the disease's different forms. Being an invasive method, it must however be undertaken with clear indications. This overview article is based on the literature available and on own experiences with exudative AMD,...

Correspondence to Professor A. C. Bird. ance pattern and delineated the spectrum of its expression more fully. They emphasised that the major threats to vision are haemorrhage and retinal detachment, that progression is limited to the early years of life, and specifically that visual loss has not been recorded in patients older than 18 years. In this report we present a patient with autosomal d...

Purpose. To report the treatment outcome of photodynamic therapy with verteporfin (PDT) for exudative retinal detachment (RD) associated with diffuse choroidal hemangioma in Sturge-Weber syndrome (SWS). Methods. An interventional case report of a 10-year-old girl with SWS who developed an exudative RD (visual acuity hand motions) that was treated with PDT. She was treated with a first session o...

INTRODUCTION Systemic high blood pressure is related to a variety of retinal manifestations. We present an atypical case of hypertensive chorioretinopathy with massive bilateral serous retinal detachment. CASE REPORT A 26-year-old male with a genitourinary malformation and secondary grade IV chronic kidney failure as well as high blood pressure complained of acute vision loss. Dilated fundus ...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous bullous serous retinal detachment (RD) with subretinal exudation complicating idiopathic central serous chorioretinopathy (ICSC) is a rare and infrequently described clinical entity. Clinical observations are described on this variant form in 11 patients, the largest series reported to date. METHODS 13 eyes of 11 Indian patients having this entity were followed up clini...

T he main abnormality of the uveal tract in patients with Sturge-Weber syndrome is diffuse choroidal hemangioma (DCH). Diffuse choroidal hemangioma can lead to a total retinal detachment and secondary neovascular glaucoma. Radiotherapy and photodynamic therapy are currently the preferred methods of treatment. Low-dose lens-sparing radiotherapy or proton beam irradiation can induce tumor regress...

The authors report two cases of rebound phenomenon treated with intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide in Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease. Patients in the acute phase of VKH disease were treated with high-dose intravenous (IV) methylprednisolone (1 g/day) for 3 days. Serous retinal detachment decreased and visual acuity improved during IV steroid treatment. After switching to oral steroid trea...