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CSC with and without steroids
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Araki, Takashi Hyogo College of Medicine|JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group
Ishikawa, Hiroto Hyogo College of Medicine|JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group
Iwahashi, Chiharu JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Sumitomo Hospital
Niki, Masanori JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Tokushima University Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory
Mitamura, Yoshinori JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Tokushima University Tokushima University Educator and Researcher Directory KAKEN Search Researchers
Sugimoto, Masahiko JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Mie University
Kondo, Mineo JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Mie University
Kinoshita, Takamasa JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Sapporo City General Hospital
Nishi, Tomo JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Nara Medical University
Ueda, Tetsuo JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Nara Medical University
Kato, Aki JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Nagoya City University
Yasukawa, Tsutomu JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Nagoya City University
Takamura, Yoshihiro JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group|Fukui University
Gomi, Fumi Hyogo College of Medicine|JCREST (Japan Clinical Retina Study) group
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Journal Article
Description
We investigated the rates of the use of steroids in Japanese central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) cases and differences in the characteristics of CSC with and without steroids. A total of 538 eyes of 477 patients diagnosed with CSC, with 3 months or more of follow-up between April 2013 and June 2017 at 8 institutions. Patients with CSC with more than 3 months of follow-up were identified by OCT and fluorescein angiography at 8 institutions. Data collected included patient demographics, history of corticosteroid medication and smoking, spherical errors, findings of angiography, subfoveal choroidal thickness, and changes through the follow-up period. Differences in these findings were analyzed in cases with and without corticosteroid treatment. Among the 477 patients (344 men,133 women), 74 (15.5%) (39 men, 35 women) underwent current or prior steroid treatment. Cases with steroids were higher age (p = 0.0403) and showed no male prevalence, more bilateral involvement (p < 0.0001), and the affected eyes had multiple pigment epithelial detachment (p <0.0001), more fluorescein leakage sites (p < 0.0001), greater choroidal thickness (p = 0.0287) and a higher recurrence rate (p = 0.0412). Steroids can cause severer CSC through an effect on choroidal vessels and an impairment of retinal pigment epithelium.
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PLOS ONE
ISSN
19326203
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PLOS
Volume
14
Issue
2
Start Page
e0213110
Published Date
2019-02-28
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© 2019 Araki et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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