ATYPICAL CENTRAL SEROUS CHORIORETINOPATHY WITH CHOROIDAL DETACHMENT: A CASE REPORT

Retin Cases Brief Rep. 2022 Nov 1;16(6):735-739. doi: 10.1097/ICB.0000000000001065.

Abstract

Purpose: We describe long-term follow-up of a patient with atypical chronic central serous chorioretinopathy with inferior bullous retinal detachment and 360° choroidal detachment, findings on multimodal imaging, differential diagnoses, and treatment.

Methods: Case report.

Results: A 66-year-old male patient, known case of bilateral chronic central serous chorioretinopathy on follow-up, presented to us with sudden painless worsening of vision in the right eye. The fundus examination, optical coherence tomography, and fundus fluorescein angiography showed an atypical chronic central serous chorioretinopathy with inferior bullous retinal detachment and peripheral choroidal detachment. The patient underwent half-fluence photodynamic therapy in the right eye. At 3 months post-photodynamic therapy, there was resolution of choroidal detachment and minimal subretinal fluid was persisting in the inferior periphery, with improvement in visual acuity.

Conclusion: Posterior choroidal loculation of fluid is a described entity in central serous chorioretinopathy. The possible explanations for anterior choroidal loculation of fluid in this case are: either a fresh excessive leakage of fluid from the posterior choroid and that fluid may have traversed to the peripheral choroid, or diffuse choroidal leakage extending up to the equatorial region, which resulted in peripheral choroidal thickening and suprachoroidal fluid accumulation.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Central Serous Chorioretinopathy* / complications
  • Central Serous Chorioretinopathy* / diagnosis
  • Central Serous Chorioretinopathy* / drug therapy
  • Choroid
  • Choroidal Effusions*
  • Fluorescein Angiography / methods
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Photochemotherapy*
  • Retinal Detachment* / diagnosis
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, Optical Coherence / methods