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Fred K. Chen, MBBS; Christopher Kennedy, PhD, FRANZCO

Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(9):1298-1299.

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A 31-year-old Australian resident presented with a 2-week history of painless visual loss in her right eye. Her only overseas travel had been a holiday in Thailand 4 years earlier. Her visual acuity was 20/200 OD and fundoscopy revealed a curvilinear chorioretinal scar that extended from the temporal ora serrata to the right macula where it terminated in a gray, edematous subfoveal lesion (Figure 1). There was no anterior uveitis or vitritis. Fluorescein angiography revealed a classic subfoveal choroidal neovascular membrane (CNVM) (Figure 2). The patient consented to a single treatment of photodynamic therapy with verteporfin in combination with a 4-mg intravitreal injection of triamcinolone acetonide. Three months later, her visual acuity improved to 20/30 with no evidence of extension in the chorioretinal scar. Repeat fluorescein angiography and optical coherence tomography confirmed complete cessation of leakage from the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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