Indocyanine green angiography and idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy

E ditor ,-Idiopathic polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (IPCV) also known as "posterior uveal bleeding syndrome" or "serosanguineous detachments in black females" is an exudative macular degeneration characterised by a juxtapapillary branching choroidal network with surrounding polypoidal excrescences associated with serous and haemorrhagic detachments of the neurosensory retina and pigment epithelium. 1-4 The patients are almost always black females in the fifth to seventh decade. [...]final visual acuities of the six treated eyes reached the same level as four of five untreated eyes. 1 ICGA with its improved imaging of the choroidal circulation accentuates the vascular polypoidal lesion 5 and allows differentiation between IPCV and CNV, an important distinction concerning the natural course, visual prognosis, and management of these diseases.