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Central serous chorioretinopathy may be a manifestation of the primary antiphospholipid syndrome
  1. M T J COSTEN
  1. Southampton Eye Unit, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD
  2. Eye Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN
  1. J A OLSON
  1. Southampton Eye Unit, Tremona Road, Southampton SO16 6YD
  2. Eye Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen AB25 2ZN
  1. Mr Costen MTJRAC{at}aol.com

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    Editor,—Central serous chorioretinopathy is thought to be an idiopathic disease and such cases are not usually investigated for an underlying cause. Bullous exudative retinal detachment is a recognised complication of central serous chorioretinopathy (CSR).1 There are a number of reports of exudative retinal detachments occurring in the context of generalised coagulopathies.2 3 We present a patient with central serous chorioretinopathy who on further investigation was found to have the primary antiphospholipid syndrome.

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