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Macular lesions associated with age-related macular degeneration in pachydrusen eyes.
Eye 2023 September 30
BACKGROUND: To investigate the prevalence of macular lesions associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in eyes with pachydrusen.
METHODS: Clinical records and multimodal imaging data of patients over 50 years old with drusen or drusenoid deposits were retrospectively assessed, and eyes with pachydrusen were included in this study. The presence of AMD features, including drusen or drusenoid deposits, macular pigmentary abnormalities, geographic atrophy (GA), and macular neovascularization (MNV), were evaluated.
RESULTS: Out of 967 eyes of 494 patients with drusen or drusenoid deposits, 330 eyes of 183 patients had pachydrusen (34.1%). The mean age was 66.1 ± 9.3 years, and the subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) was 292.7 ± 100.1 μm. The mean number of pachydrusen per eye was 2.22 ± 1.73. The majority of eyes with pachydrusen had no other drusen or drusenoid deposits (95.2%). Only 16 eyes (4.8%) had other deposits, including soft drusen (10 eyes, 3.0%), cuticular drusen (3 eyes, 0.9%), and reticular pseudodrusen (RPD; 3 eyes, 0.9%). Macular pigmentary abnormalities accompanied pachydrusen in 68 eyes (27.4%). None of the eyes had GA, and 82 eyes (24.8%) had MNV. The majority of MNV was polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV; 65 eyes, 19.7%), followed by type 1 (10 eyes, 3.0%), type 2 (5 eyes, 1.5%), and type 3 MNV (2 eyes, 0.6%).
CONCLUSIONS: Eyes with pachydrusen in Korean population have several characteristic AMD lesions in low frequencies. These findings indicate that pachydrusen might have diagnostic and prognostic values that are different from those of other drusen or drusenoid deposits.
METHODS: Clinical records and multimodal imaging data of patients over 50 years old with drusen or drusenoid deposits were retrospectively assessed, and eyes with pachydrusen were included in this study. The presence of AMD features, including drusen or drusenoid deposits, macular pigmentary abnormalities, geographic atrophy (GA), and macular neovascularization (MNV), were evaluated.
RESULTS: Out of 967 eyes of 494 patients with drusen or drusenoid deposits, 330 eyes of 183 patients had pachydrusen (34.1%). The mean age was 66.1 ± 9.3 years, and the subfoveal choroidal thickness (SFCT) was 292.7 ± 100.1 μm. The mean number of pachydrusen per eye was 2.22 ± 1.73. The majority of eyes with pachydrusen had no other drusen or drusenoid deposits (95.2%). Only 16 eyes (4.8%) had other deposits, including soft drusen (10 eyes, 3.0%), cuticular drusen (3 eyes, 0.9%), and reticular pseudodrusen (RPD; 3 eyes, 0.9%). Macular pigmentary abnormalities accompanied pachydrusen in 68 eyes (27.4%). None of the eyes had GA, and 82 eyes (24.8%) had MNV. The majority of MNV was polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV; 65 eyes, 19.7%), followed by type 1 (10 eyes, 3.0%), type 2 (5 eyes, 1.5%), and type 3 MNV (2 eyes, 0.6%).
CONCLUSIONS: Eyes with pachydrusen in Korean population have several characteristic AMD lesions in low frequencies. These findings indicate that pachydrusen might have diagnostic and prognostic values that are different from those of other drusen or drusenoid deposits.
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