Thursday, 6 October 2016

Bilateral Chronic Central Serous Chorioretinopathy (CSCR) Induced by Long-Term Testosterone Treatment

Purpose: We reported a rare case of bilateral chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) induced by longterm exogenous testosterone treatment. Method: A case report. Result: A 52-year-oldman with medical history of diabetes mellitus, hypertension, diabetes insipidus and hypogonadism presented to our ophthalmologic clinic with unstable blurred vision of right eye for more than 5 years and vision loss of left eye since childhood injury. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) showed subfoveal fluid in both of his eyes. 

Chorioretinopathy
Fluorescein angiography (FA) revealed fluorescein in multiple leaking points around the arcade area, which appeared hyper fluorescence not only in early phase but sustained fluorescein pooling till late phase in both eyes. According to his medical records, he received intramuscular testosterone injection every two weeks as treatment of hypogonadism for more than 10 years. His serum level of testosterone was higher than normal range. After focal photocoagulation in his right eye combined with decreasing frequency of testosterone intramuscular injection, the subfoveal fluid in both of his eyes totally resolved with vision improvement. 

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