Bilateral choroidal caverns in a child with pachychoroid and anxious personality.
COVID-19
Choroidal caverns
Optical coherence tomography
Pachychoroid
Journal
American journal of ophthalmology case reports
ISSN: 2451-9936
Titre abrégé: Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101679941
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jun 2022
Jun 2022
Historique:
received:
19
10
2021
revised:
15
03
2022
accepted:
20
03
2022
entrez:
4
4
2022
pubmed:
5
4
2022
medline:
5
4
2022
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
To report a case of a 7-year-old male patient with bilateral choroidal caverns (CC) and pachychoroid. During the Italian COVID-19 lockdown, a 7-year old boy presented with bilateral vision decline that had started two weeks before. Structural optical coherence tomography revealed pachychoroid and CC bilaterally. Other ocular examinations were negative. The patient had an apprehensive personality and symptoms quickly resolved when he was provided with non-prescription glasses; his visual disturbances were thus considered to be functional and factitious. Our patient's symptoms remind us that the distress imposed upon psychologically frail subjects by the COVID-19 pandemic may have multifaceted manifestations. The discovery of CC in a pediatric patient with healthy eyes presents us with new questions about the processes of degeneration thought to be the cause for CC. Further studies are needed to estimate the prevalence of CC in the general adult and pediatric populations, as well as in patients with chorioretinal diseases.
Identifiants
pubmed: 35372710
doi: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101505
pii: S2451-9936(22)00251-1
pmc: PMC8968018
doi:
Types de publication
Case Reports
Langues
eng
Pagination
101505Informations de copyright
© 2022 The Authors.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Riccardo Sacconi: consultant for Bayer Shering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Zeiss (Dublin, USA). Francesco Bandello consultant for: Alcon (Fort Worth, Texas,USA), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, Georgia, USA), Allergan Inc (Irvine, California,USA), Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bayer Shering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Bausch And Lomb (Rochester, New York, USA), Genentech (San Francisco, California, USA), Hoffmann-La-Roche (Basel, Switzerland), NovagaliPharma (Évry, France), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sanofi-Aventis (Paris, France), Thrombogenics (Heverlee, Belgium), Zeiss (Dublin, USA) Giuseppe Querques consultant for: Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, Georgia, USA), Allergan Inc (Irvine, California,USA), Bayer Shering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Heidelberg (Germany), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sandoz (Berlin, Germany), Zeiss (Dublin, USA).
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