PACHYCHOROID NEOVASCULOPATHY

Pachychoroid neovasculopathy falls within a spectrum of diseases associated with choroidal thickening that includes pachychoroid pigment epitheliopathy, central serous chorioretinopathy, and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy and should be considered as a possible diagnosis in eyes with features of Type 1 neovascularization and choroidal thickening in the absence of characteristic age-related macular degeneration or degenerative changes. Pachychoroid neovasculopathy may occur as a focal abnormality within the macula, even in myopic eyes with normal subfoveal choroidal thickness. Pachychoroid neovasculopathy can ultimately progress to the development of polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.