ハセガワ タイジ
  長谷川 泰司
   所属   医学部 医学科(東京女子医科大学病院)
   職種   講師
言語種別 英語
発表タイトル Treatment-naïve quiescent macular neovascularization and pachychoroid neovasculopathy
会議名 ARVO 2023 Annual Meeting
学会区分 国際学会及び海外の学会
発表形式 ポスター掲示
講演区分 一般
発表者・共同発表者◎Kakehashi Mizuha, Maruko Ichiro, Nishihara Soichiro, Hashiya Nozomu, Hasegawa Taiji, IIDA Tomohiro
発表年月日 2023/04/23
国名 アメリカ合衆国
開催地
(都市, 国名)
New Orleans Morial Convention Center
開催期間 2023/04/21~2023/04/27
概要 Purpose: Recently, treatment-naïve quiescent macular neovascularization (MNV) is detected on optical
coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) without intraretinal or subretinal fluid. On the other hand,
pachychoroid neovasculopathy (PNV) with choroidal abnormalities such as choroidal thickening, has been
proposed as a new clinical entity. The relationship between quiescent MNV and PNV is not fully understood in
detail.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the choroidal vasculature in quiescent MNV using widefield enface
OCT.
Methods: The study subjects were 39 eyes of 38 patients who were diagnosed quiescent MNV with OCTA and
able to observe the choroidal vasculature in widefield en face OCT. All subjects were Japanese, and the mean
age was 60.6 years (27 males and 11 females).
We diagnosed quiescent MNV using 3×3 mm OCTA (RTVue XR Avanti, Optovue), and evaluated choroidal
vasculature with 12×12 mm en face OCT obtained at the same time as the OCTA (Elite9000, Zeiss). PNV was
defined with MNV detected just above the dilated choroidal vessels. Subfoveal choroidal thickness (SCT) was
also measured with Swept Source OCT (DRI-OCT, Topcon).
Results: All patients had type1 MNV, with a mean visual acuity of 20/20. PNV was detected in 28 of 39 eyes
(71.8%). Mean SCT (339±113μm) in PNV was significantly thicker than that (222±113μm) in non-PNV (P<
0.01). During the average follow-up period of 19.3 months, the exudation developed in 12 eyes (30.8%). There
were slightly more PNV cases (8 eyes), however the difference was not significant (P=0.71).
Conclusions: Quiescent MNV cases included many cases of PNV, suggesting that choroidal vascular
abnormalities are involved in the pathogenesis of the disease.