Treatment Outcomes in Patients with Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy.

OBJECTIVES: To report outcomes of photodynamic therapy (PDT) and combined therapy with PDT and intravitreal bevacizumab (IVB) in patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Thirty-four eyes of 31 patients with subfoveal PCV were evaluated. Nine eyes were treated with PDT and 25 eyes treated with combined therapy of PDT and IVB. All eyes had a follow-up period of at least 12 months. In this retrospective study the demographic features, best corrected visual acuity, fundus color photography, optical coherence tomography, fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography of the 34 eyes were evaluated.

RESULTS: Visual acuity improved but did not change significantly in the patients treated with PDT and combined PDT+IVB therapy (p=0.149; p=0.087). Although the mean central foveal thickness decreased in both groups, there was no statistically significant difference between groups (p=0.98). The polypoidal lesions regressed in 6 (66.7%) of 9 eyes in the PDT monotherapy group and 16 (64%) of 25 eyes in the PDT+IVB combined therapy group.

CONCLUSION: Both PDT and a combined therapy of PDT and IVB yielded successful outcomes in patients with PCV.