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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 10  |  Page : 2260

Macular vortex vein in high myopia


Department of Retina-Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Date of Web Publication23-Sep-2020

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Dr. Ramesh Venkatesh
Department of Retina-Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, 121/C, Chord Road, 1st ‘R’ Block, Rajaji Nagar, Bengaluru - 560 010, Karnataka
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_392_20

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Venkatesh R, Pereira A, Thomas S, Sangai S, Sridharan A, Yadav NK. Macular vortex vein in high myopia. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2260

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Venkatesh R, Pereira A, Thomas S, Sangai S, Sridharan A, Yadav NK. Macular vortex vein in high myopia. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 29];68:2260. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/10/2260/295739



Fundus examination in a 25-year-old myopic man with a refractive error of -10DS, -1.50 DC × 10°, 6/9, N6 in both eyes showed normal retinal periphery, tilted optic disc with peripapillary atrophy and dilated submacular vasculature in the RE. [Figure 1]a Sequential indocyanine green angiography images showed the filling and emptying of the dye in a macular vortex vein in the RE (white arrow) [Figure 1]b and [Figure 1]c. The ampulla of the vortex vein was seen nasal to the fovea. Spectral-domain optical coherence tomography demonstrated dilated choroidal vessels at the posterior pole (yellow arrow) [Figure 1]d.
Figure 1: Posterior vortex vein in high myopia

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Posterior vortex veins (PVV) may be a prominent incidental finding seen in nearly one-quarter of highly myopic eyes. PVV is usually found exiting the eye either at the margin of the optic nerve head or at the macula on indocyanine green angiography.[1],[2] Eyes with PVV have reduced axial length, posterior staphyloma, and higher incidence of choroidal neovascularization-related macular atrophy.[2],[3] The imaging modality routinely used to identify PVV is ultrawide indocyanine green angiography and more recently optical coherence tomography angiography.[2],[4]

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Ohno-Matsui K, Morishima N, Ito M, Yamashita S, Tokoro T. Posterior routes of choroidal blood outflow in high myopia. Retina (Philadelphia, Pa) 1996;16:419-25.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
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Moriyama M, Cao K, Ogata S, Ohno-Matsui K. Detection of posterior vortex veins in eyes with pathologic myopia by ultra-widefield indocyanine green angiography. Br J Ophthalmol 2017;101:1179-84.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
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Schouten IM, Palkar AH, Bhende M. Macular vortex vein with choroidal neovascularisation in pathologic myopia. Indian J Ophthalmol 2019;67:1717-8.  Back to cited text no. 3
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Kaplan RI, Walsh JB, Rosen RB, Gupta M. Macular vortex vein in a highly myopic eye imaged by optical coherence tomography angiography. Retin Cases Brief Rep 2018. doi: 10.1097/ICB.0000000000000808  Back to cited text no. 4
    


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