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Bilateral Chorioretinal Folds in Association with Chronic Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy

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  • DO, Assistant Professor and Director of Ophthalmology, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Box #58, SUNYDownstate Medical Center, 142 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA, Tel: 718-596-6800; E-mail: eshrier@yahoo.com

  • Bilateral chorioretinal folds are uncommon, and have been associated with choroidal venous congestion [4]. Mechanical factors such as scleral thickening may possibly predispose to derangement of the underlying circulation and theoretically to the development of subretinal neovascularization, such as occurred in this case

  • The biomechanical effect of scleral thickening or relative foreshortening of the eye as is the case in hyperopia is presupposed to lead to folds of the overlying choriocapillaris and retina [5], as is intuitively the cause of folds that are seen in situations where there are compressive orbital tumors

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DO, Assistant Professor and Director of Ophthalmology, Retina Service, Department of Ophthalmology, Box #58, SUNYDownstate Medical Center, 142 Joralemon Street, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA, Tel: 718-596-6800; E-mail: eshrier@yahoo.com Jabbour Vitreous & Retina Service West Virginia University Eye Institute, USA She had been first imaged in 2005 where a diagnosis of bilateral chronic idiopathic chorioretinal folds and bilateral drusen/nonexudative macular degeneration was made (Figure 4).

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