Thiago José Muniz Machado Mazzeo, Henrique Monteiro Leber, Allan Gomes da Silva, Raimunda Cristina Mendonça Freire, Gabriel Castilho Sandoval Barbosa, Guilherme Garcia Criado, Gabriel Almeida Veiga Jacob, Cleide Guimarães Machado, André Marcelo Vieira Gomes
PURPOSE: The aim of this article is to do a comprehensive literature review about the current understandings of the pachychoroid disease spectrum, describing its multimodal imaging analysis, pathophysiology, differential diagnosis, and current types of management. METHODS: This comprehensive literature review was performed based on a search on the PubMed database, of relevant pachychoroid published papers according to our current knowledge. DISCUSSION: The pachychoroid disease spectrum, according to some authors, includes the following: pachychoroid pigment epitheliopathy (PPE), central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC), pachychoroid neovasculopathy (PNV), polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV)/aneurysmal type 1 neovascularization (AT1), and more recently focal choroidal excavation (FCE) and peripapillary pachychoroid syndrome (PPS)...
March 2022: Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology