The clinical characteristics of a large series of patients with punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) is presented in a new research report. The term punctate inner choroidopathy (PIC) was first used by Watzke et al in 1984 to describe findings in a group of 10 patients with multifocal, well-circumscribed, usually small choroidal lesions. These...

Intravitreal Avastin (bevacizumab) is effective in the treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) resulting from presumed ocular histoplasmosis syndrome, according to a new study. Histoplasmosis is a disease caused when airborne spores of the fungus Histoplasma capsulatum are inhaled in the lungs. Histoplasmosis is sometimes so mild that...

The Berkshire Priorities Committee, which advises the National Health Service (NHS) of the United Kingdom (UK) on health care interventions and policies, has issued a "Low Priority" funding directive for anti-VEGF therapy for ocular neovascularization from conditions other than age-related macular degeneration (AMD), including ocular...

A new study finds that combined anti-VEGF and photodynamic therapy (PDT) is effective for juxtafoveal and extrafoveal choroidal neovascularization (CNV) due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), ocular histoplasmosis syndrome (OHS), and degenerative myopia. Laser photocoagulation is the standard therapy for CNV that occurs outside the...

The anti-VEGF drugs Lucentis and Avastin are effective in the treatment of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) secondary to multifocal choroiditis, according to a new research report. Multifocal choroiditis (MFC) is an inflammatory condition, occasionally associated with choroidal neovascularization (CNV). Some cases of MFC are believed to be...

A new study finds that CNV secondary to non-AMD causes treated with Avastin responded favorably and similarly, despite varying underlying etiologies. The investigators performed a retrospective analysis of eyes that received intravitreous Avastin (bevacizumab, 1.25 mg), for subfoveal non-AMD CNV at a referral-based retinal practice. Repeated...