Pulsatile Blood Flow in the Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy

Clinical features of early and late stage polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy characterized by lesion size and disease duration

“…This suggests that pulsatile polypoidal vessels in PCV might be representative of an early stage of the disease. Pulsatile vessels seem to be related to the choroidal vasculature [21]. The pathogenesis of PCV in the small-short group might therefore result from certain morphological characteristics Fig.…”

Sensitivity and Specificity of Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography in Detecting Idiopathic Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy

“…12 However, with the advent of new imaging techniques, such as SD OCT, the diagnostic accuracy of this condition has improved and new histopathologic characteristics have been described by different authors. [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] Some reports have also shown an association of PCV with other diseases such as sickle cell, 14 central retinal vein occlusion, 15 retinitis pigmentosa, 16 CSCR, 17 and melanocytoma. 18 One of the earliest tomographic signs 6,7 described in patients suspected of PCV has been a steep sharp peaklike elevation of the RPE with underlying moderate reflectivity within the peak.…”

Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy: Clinical Features and Genetic Predisposition

“…Clustered grape-like polypoidal lesions on ICGA were observed frequently (25-67%) in Asian populations [12,13,48]. It is very unique for PCV that some cases show pulsations of the polypoidal lesions in the early phase of ICGA [50,51,52]. Dilatation of choroidal vessels found in the early and middle phases of ICGA is another unique feature of PCV (fig.…”