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- Title
Bilateral choroidal neovascularization response to unilateral intravitreal Ranibizumab injection in a patient with angioid streaks.
- Authors
de Oliveira Maia Júnior, Otacílio; Takahashi, Beatriz Sayuri; Leitão Guerra, Ricardo Luz; Walter Yukihiko Takahashi; Marback, Roberto Lorens
- Abstract
Report of a 48 year-old male with bilateral decrease in vision due to choroidal neovascularization secondary to angioid streaks. Best corrected visual acuity was 20/80 in the right eye and counting fingers at 2 meters on the left eye. Patient underwent intravitreal injection of Ranibizumab (Lucentis) in the eye with worse visual acuity. Fifteen days after treatment patient reported better visual acuity on the fellow eye, which was measured to be 20/25. Treatment result was evaluated with visual acuity and optical coherence tomography. The effect of ranibizumab was observed in the treated eye, but the fellow eye had complete resolution of the choroidal neovascularization complex. This result may be a response to systemic absorption of the medication.
- Subjects
NEOVASCULARIZATION; ANGIOID streaks; RANIBIZUMAB; RETINAL diseases; EYE diseases; NEOVASCULARIZATION inhibitors
- Publication
Revista Brasileira de Oftalmologia, 2013, Vol 72, Issue 4, p274
- ISSN
0034-7280
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.1590/s0034-72802013000400014