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Choroidal vascular abnormality in Purtscher's retinopathy shown by indocyanine green angiography
F Gomez-Ulla1, B Fente, M G Torreiro
1Servicio de Oftalmologia, Facultad de Medicina/Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Spain.
Purpose:
To report choroidal vascular abnormality in unilateral Purtscher's retinopathy.
Methods:
Fluorescein angiography and indocyanine green angiography with a scanning laser ophthalmoscope were used to examine a 19-year-old man four days, three months, and five months after sustaining an injury in a car accident.
Results:
Indocyanine green angiography showed an area of choroidal hypofluorescence that continued to be present up to five months after the accident.
Conclusions:
Choroidal vasculature may be affected in Purtscher's retinopathy. Disorder in the choroidal microcirculation could be an additional cause of the resulting poor vision observed in some patients with Purtscher's retinopathy.