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Vanishing pachy-choroid in pachychoroid neovasculopathy under long-term anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy.

Benedikt SchwormNikolaus LuftLeonie F KeidelThomas C KreutzerTina R HeroldSiegfried G PriglingerJakob Siedlecki
Published in: BMC ophthalmology (2021)
In PNV, choroidal thickness significantly decreases with anti-VEGF therapy, resembling a "vanishing pachy-choroid", and thus does not represent a valid long-term diagnostic criterium, especially when differentiating PNV from nAMD.
Keyphrases
  • vascular endothelial growth factor
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