Dr. Shriya Dhar, Dr. Harsha Bhattacharjee
Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) is characterized by circumscribed serous detachment of neurosensory retina in the macula and accompanied by retinal pigment epithelial detachment, retinal pigment epithelial dysfunction and atrophy or choroidal circulatory disturbance. Fluorescein angiography (FA) has helped in clinical characterization of the disease but has its own limitations in imaging the choroidal vessels, hence has not been of much use in understanding the pathogenesis of the disease. With the advent of indocyanine green angiography (ICGA), imaging of the choroidal vasculature has been made possible.
Using ICGA, choroidal vascular abnormalities, such as filling delays of the choroidal arteries and choriocapillaries, venous dilatation and focal hyperfluorescence of the choroid which indicate hyperpermeability of choroidal vessels, have been reported. We present a retrospective, interventional case series of 30 patients diagnosed with CSCR between July 2013 and Feb 2014. Our aim was to study the abnormalities in choroidal