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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE |
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Year : 2020 | Volume
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Macular vortex vein in high myopia
Ramesh Venkatesh, Arpitha Pereira, Sherina Thomas, Sajjan Sangai, Akhila Sridharan, Naresh Kumar Yadav
Department of Retina-Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Date of Web Publication | 23-Sep-2020 |
Correspondence Address: Dr. Ramesh Venkatesh Department of Retina-Vitreous, Narayana Nethralaya, 121/C, Chord Road, 1st ‘R’ Block, Rajaji Nagar, Bengaluru - 560 010, Karnataka India
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_392_20
How to cite this article: Venkatesh R, Pereira A, Thomas S, Sangai S, Sridharan A, Yadav NK. Macular vortex vein in high myopia. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:2260 |
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.
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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