Central Serous Chorioretinopathy Developed Following Covid-19 Vaccine

ABSTRACT

A 40-year-old male patient, an office worker, is a hospital staff. He applied with the complaint of sudden onset of blurred vision in the right eye. He stated that he had the first dose of inactivated covid vaccine (sinovac) 4 days ago in his story. In his examination, his vision was 0.5 in the right eye, 1.0 in the left eye, and his intraocular pressure was in both eyes. It was at the level of 15 mmHg. Biomicroscopically, the anterior segment looked natural. CSC was diagnosed in the FFA and OCT examinations.Treatment with oral acetazolamide (2x250 mg), topical nepafanac (4x1) was started. On the 13th day of the treatment, there was insufficient improvement in clinical findings, and oral acetazolamide was used. The dose was reduced (2x125 mg), oral epleronone (50 mg) was added. On the 70th day of the treatment, the vision in the right eye increased to full level in the control examination and it was observed that the retina returned to its normal appearance in the OCT examination.Copyright © 2023 Gazi Eye Foundation. All rights reserved.