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Akinori Uemura, MD; Matthew A. Thomas, MD

Arch Ophthalmol. 2000;118:1373-1378.

Objective  To assess the visual outcome after surgical removal of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in pediatric patients.

Methods  A retrospective, noncomparative, consecutive case series of 17 eyes undergoing surgical removal of CNV of various causes in patients aged 18 years and younger.

Results  The cause of the CNV was presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome in 11 eyes, idiopathic in 3, and optic nerve coloboma, ocular toxoplasmosis, and trauma in 1 eye each. Two eyes had CNV within 100 µm of the center of the foveal avascular zone (juxtafoveal CNV) and 1 eye had peripapillary CNV, while 14 eyes had CNV beneath the geometric center of the foveal avascular zone (subfoveal CNV). In eyes with subfoveal CNV, median preoperative Snellen visual acuity was 20/200 (range, 20/80-3/200). With a median follow-up of 27 months (range, 6-45 months), median final visual acuity was 20/50 (range, 20/20-2/200); 10 (72%) had improvement of 2 or more Snellen lines after surgery, and 6 eyes (43%) had final visual acuity of 20/40 or better. In 3 eyes with juxtafoveal CNV or peripapillary CNV, all eyes had improvement of 4 or more Snellen lines. Postoperative recurrent CNV developed in 6 (35%) of 17 patients; 2 of the eyes underwent a second vitrectomy and 4 received laser treatment for the recurrences.

Conclusions  Pediatric patients may have good recovery of vision after surgical removal of CNV, and the removal of these membranes may be a viable alternative to laser photocoagulation in pediatric patients.

From the Barnes Retina Institute, St Louis, Mo. Dr Uemura is now with the Department of Ophthalmology, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan. The authors have no proprietary interests in any of the material used in this study.

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