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Choroidal neovascularisation associated with optic nerve head drusen: Case report and review of literature
Neovascularización coroidea asociada a drusas del nervio óptico: caso clínico y revisión de la literatura
M. Castro-Rebolloa,
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, J. González Martin-Moroa,b, I. Lozano Escobara
a Hospital Universitario del Henares, Coslada, Madrid, Spain
b Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
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3</a>A&#8211;C&#41;&#46; Three years after said intravitreal treatment&#44; the patient remains stable&#46; VA has not changed and ONHD exhibits a similar appearance&#44; with fibrosis in the area occupied by CNV&#46;</p><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0005"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0010"></elsevierMultimedia><elsevierMultimedia ident="fig0015"></elsevierMultimedia></span><span id="sec0015" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0035">Discussion</span><p id="par0015" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In the majority of cases&#44; ONHD are a casual finding in OF examinations without patients exhibiting clinic related to that disease&#46; In children&#44; ONHD is a frequent cause of pseudo-papiledema that requires adequate differential diagnostic with other central nervous system diseases such as tumors or intracranial hypertension to avoid exposing patients to unnecessary tests&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a> During childhood&#44; 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hemorrhages&#44; NAAION&#44; vascular occlusions and CNV&#46; Classically&#44; choroidal neovascularisation has been regarded as an infrequent complication&#46; However&#44; a recently published retrospective series found this complication in 24 out of 98 eyes with ONHD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a></p><p id="par0025" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The incidence of CNV in patients with ONHD is unknown but it is believed that it is more frequent in children&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0050"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">1</span></a> Typically it is located in the peripapillary region and courses with good VA&#46; However&#44; in some occasions &#40;as in the present patient&#41; neovascularisation or subretinal fluid could extend to the macula and impair VA&#46;</p><p id="par0030" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">The pathogeny of neovascularisation is not yet fully understood&#46; It has been proposed that&#44; in their growth&#44; ONHD could erode vessels or produce venous congestion in the ciliary retinal venous communicating vessels&#46; It could also be explained due to the release of growth factors secondary to ischemia produced by the increased size thereof&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0035" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">It is difficult to determine the best technique for diagnosing ONHD in children&#46; Ocular echography continues to be the technique of choice due to low cost and high sensitivity to detect calcifications&#44; with the drawback that in children these are not visible because in many cases they are not yet calcified&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> ONHD also exhibits autofluorescence&#44; although this diagnostic method comprises an important limitation in that it can only evidence extruded ONHDs&#46; Accordingly&#44; both techniques have limited usefulness in children because in many cases their ONHDs are not yet extruded or calcified&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0055"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">2</span></a></p><p id="par0040" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">In case of doubt or to discard a genuine papilla edema secondary to a cerebral process&#44; it could be indicated to request computerized axial tomography &#40;CAT&#41; of the brain&#44; although this technique is more expensive and involves the use of ionizing radiation&#46; OCT could also be useful because with this technique ONHDs are displayed as a hypo-reflective mass posterior to the plexiform and outer nuclear layers with absence of bonds to the photoreceptor inner-outer segments&#46; Improved resolution and penetration capacity of OCT has produced an increased sensitivity to detect ONHD&#46; Some authors have demonstrated that the <span class="elsevierStyleItalic">Enhanced Depth Imaging</span> &#40;EDI&#41; technology is more sensitive than echography to identify ONHD&#46; In addition&#44; it enables their visualization and size assessment&#46; With this technology&#44; ONHD appeared as hypo-reflective oval-shaped structures surrounded by a hypo-reflective margin&#44; in front of the cribrosa Plate&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0070"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">5</span></a></p><p id="par0045" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">According to Noval et al&#44; when analyzing the retinal nerve fiber layer &#40;RNFL&#41;&#44; thickness increase is bigger in the nasal quadrant&#44; which is consistent with the more frequent VF defect and&#44; as with other optic neuropathies&#44; macular ganglion cell analysis would show early thinning in the case of buried ONHD&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0065"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">4</span></a> In what concerns treatment of MNVSR associated to ONHD&#44; several methods have been applied in the past including laser photocoagulation&#44; photodynamic therapy or macular surgery&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRefs" href="#bib0075"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">6&#8211;9</span></a> Since 2012&#44; anti-VEGF therapy is successfully applied&#46; In the present patient&#44; the membrane exhibited fibrosis after administering only 2 doses of anti-VEGF&#46; Due to the infrequent nature of this entity and the absence of randomized clinical trials&#44; it is impossible to determine whether the injection of said medicaments actually improved the prognosis of this form of choroidal neovascularisation&#44; or if said membranes demonstrated spontaneous evolution toward cicatrization&#46;</p></span><span id="sec0020" class="elsevierStyleSection elsevierViewall"><span class="elsevierStyleSectionTitle" id="sect0040">Conclusion</span><p id="par0050" class="elsevierStylePara elsevierViewall">CNV associated to ONHD is an infrequent complication although recently the literature seems to indicate that it is more common than we thought&#46;<a class="elsevierStyleCrossRef" href="#bib0060"><span class="elsevierStyleSup">3</span></a> Prognostic is better than in other forms of subretinal neovascularisation&#46; 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