A 76-year-old female patient with no visual complaints presented for routine eye care. BCVA was 20/20 OU. Looking at the image, could you describe the finding on the OCT image?
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Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the section of question of the month and answered the question. In this month’s question, a 76-year-old female patient with 20/20 vision and with no visual complaints was presented. Description of the finding on the OCT image was asked.
The answer to the question is “Choroidal Macrovessel”. As a result of the lottery drawn among those who answered the question correctly, Prof. Dr. M. Selim KOCABORA won this month’s book prize. Congratulations to him.
Choroidal macrovessel was described for the first time by Lima and associates in 2011. OCT is able to detect the macrovessel in the choroid by showing hollowness along the course of the vessel and elevations of the overlying retinal pigment epithelium. Moreover, OCT‐A technology allows simultaneous acquisition of en face OCT scan, which has been shown to be useful for the detection of the choroidal macrovessel.
Casalino G, Simone LD, Scialdone A, Pavesio C. Choroidal macrovessel: Optical coherence tomography angiography and imaging features. Indian J Ophthalmol. 2019 67(7): 1168–1170.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6611261/
Prof. Dr. M. Selim KOCABORA
Medipol Mega University Hospital
Dr. Selim Kocabora is graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Medicine in 1987. After completing his residency in Ophthalmology between 1988-1992 at the Istanbul Vakıf Gureba Training and Research Hospital, Şişli Etfal Training and Research Hospital and Grenoble University Hospital, he started to work as clinical fellow at the Istanbul Vakif Gureba Hospital in 1993. He is currently practicing and continuing his clinical research at the Facult of Medicine of Istanbul Medipol University. He is specialized in the vitreo-retinal diseases and glaucoma. He has 49 international and 46 national publications. ‘Calcification postoperatoire des lentilles intraoculaires acryliques hydrophiles: aspects cliniques et pathologiques’, ‘Traitement de l’oedeme maculaire diabetique par injection intravitreenne
d’acetonide de triamcinolone: consequences fonctionelles et anatomiques’ and ‘Serum and Aqueous Concentrations of Inflammatory Markers in Diabetic Macular Edema’ are his main articles. ‘TOD Cases with Glaucoma Meeting 3rd prize for best presentation” and “14th EVRS Meeting 3rd Best Scientific Poster Award” are his main awards.
