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Arch Ophthalmol. 2005;123:1149-1153.

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In recent years, photodynamic therapy (PDT) using verteporfin has emerged as an important method for treating certain subtypes of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration.¹ Despite the significant beneficial effects, a 4% risk of acute severe vision decrease has been reported for patients undergoing PDT with verteporfin.² An initial thermally enhanced photochemical impact on the macula appears to induce changes in the choriocapillaris to arrest the progression of the neovascularized complex without significant permanent damage to the choriocapillaris, retinal pigment epithelium, and photoreceptors.³ There have been a few cases, however, of transient choroidal ischemia, where normal choroidal vessels have shown evidence of transient delay. The ischemic change in these eyes evolves without clinical evidence of permanent damage. This is a report of a choroidal infarction observed in the treatment of CNV in age-related macular degeneration using standard methods of PDT with verteporfin.

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Christina M. Klais, MD; Michael D. Ober, MD; K. Bailey Freund, MD; Leonard H. Ginsburg, MD; Alan Luckie, MD; Martine Mauget-Faÿsse, MD; Gabriel Coscas, MD; Nicole E. Gross, MD; Lawrence A. Yannuzzi, MD

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