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KMID : 0360220180590100984
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Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
2018 Volume.59 No. 10 p.984 ~ p.988
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Rapid Progression of the Epiretinal Membrane after Intravitreal Aflibercept Injection
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Kwon Ji-Min
Lee Myung-Shin
Park Kang-Yeun
Kim Hyun-Woong
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Abstract
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Purpose: To report a case of rapid progression of the epiretinal membrane following intravitreal aflibercept injection in a patient with exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Case summary: An 82-year-old female presented with a complaint of decreased visual acuity in her left eye for 1 month. The initial best-corrected visual acuity was 0.2 in the left eye. Fundus examination and optical coherence tomography revealed soft drusen with retinal hemorrhage of the macula and a transparent epiretinal membrane in the left eye. Fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography showed retinal angiomatous proliferation (RAP) of the left eye, so intravitreal aflibercept injection was performed. One month after the first injection, intraretinal cystic macular edema decreased, while transparency of the epiretinal membrane decreased and reflectivity and thickness of the membrane increased. After two additional injections of aflibercept, RAP showed improvement, whereas the epiretinal membrane progressed. Visual acuity of the left eye decreased to 0.1 and vitrectomy of the membrane was performed.
Conclusions: Careful observation for potentially rapid progression of epiretinal membrane is needed after intravitreal aflibercept injection in the management of exudate age-related macular degeneration accompanied by epiretinal membrane.
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KEYWORD
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Aflibercept, Age-related macular degeneration, Epiretinal membrane
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