A panel of retina specialists developed and validated a set of diagnostic criteria based on OCT and fundus photography to differentiate polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy from neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
“The current gold standard for diagnosing PCV requires indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), but in many practices, and increasingly so, ICGA is not routinely performed,” Chui Ming Gemmy Cheung, MD, FRCOphth, told Ocular Surgery News. “Having a set of OCT-based criteria will help many clinicians identify the PCV variant and make the right decision about treatment.”
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