Development of Typical Age-related Macular Degeneration and Polypoidal Choroidal Vasculopathy in Fellow Eyes of Japanese Patients with Exudative Age-related Macular Degeneration

Typical AMD and PCV had similar probabilities of involving the fellow eye in unilaterally affected Japanese patients. RPE atrophy was a prevailing finding in fellow eyes of patients who developed PCV. In PCV, choroidal vascular network and polypoidal formation gradually grow before exudative changes.