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Photodynamic treatment of a secondary vasoproliferative tumour associated with sector retinitis pigmentosa and Usher syndrome type I
Author(s) -
Osman Saatci A,
Aylin Yaman,
Gul Arıkan,
Celikel Harika
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
clinical and experimental ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.3
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1442-9071
pISSN - 1442-6404
DOI - 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2007.01440.x
Subject(s) - medicine , retinitis pigmentosa , photodynamic therapy , ophthalmology , surgery , retinal , chemistry , organic chemistry
A bstract Vasoproliferative tumours may be primary or secondary and present with severe exudation leading to marked visual loss. We describe a 47‐year‐old man with unilateral secondary vasoproliferative tumour associated with sector retinitis pigmentosa and Usher I syndrome who was successfully treated with a single session of photodynamic treatment. Standard treatment protocol was used except that the treatment duration was doubled. A year after the treatment, the angioma‐like tumour vanished and exudation was dramatically reduced. Photodynamic therapy seems to be a minimally invasive and safe technique in eyes with secondary vasoproliferative tumours.