Abstract
We aimed to report a case of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) in a 47 year-old man who used tadalafil 20 mg, three times on alternate days for erectile dysfunction. Since the patient’s incidental ophthalmologic examination two weeks before the drug intake was entirely normal, our case report strongly supported that the tadalafil had caused CSC.
Highlights
Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a retinal disorder in which there is a serous exudative retinal detachment, exact etiopatogenesis is unknown [1,2,3]
CSC was reported in patients taking tadalafil [5,6,7], there are some reported studies [8,9,10] that supporting the PDE-5 inhibitors do not cause the CSC
CSC is a condition characterized by the accumulation of subretinal fluid at the posterior pole of the fundus, causing single or multiple areas of serous retinal detachment [1,2,3]
Summary
Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) is a retinal disorder in which there is a serous exudative retinal detachment, exact etiopatogenesis is unknown [1,2,3]. Patients with CSC have complaints of micropsia, metamorphopsia, moderate to severe impairment of visual acuity and/or central relative scotoma, hyperopic shift in refraction and color and contrast sensitivity reduction [3]. Tadalafil (Cialis®, Lilly, Ortaköy, İstanbul) is a relatively new phosphodiesterase (PDE)-5 inhibitor which is one of the most commonly used in the case of male erectile dysfunction. CSC was reported in patients taking tadalafil [5,6,7], there are some reported studies [8,9,10] that supporting the PDE-5 inhibitors do not cause the CSC
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