title: Factors affecting the visual outcome in acute central serous chorioretinopathy.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the visual outcome in patients with acute Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR) and to analyze the association of clinical, angiographic and tomographic factors with final visual outcome in Pakistani population.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted at AFIO Rawalpindi and PNS Shifa Naval hospital Karachi from November 2011 to August 2016. Fifty five eyes of 53 patients with acute CSCR were included. All patients underwent a detailed ophthalmic examination including SD OCT imaging at baseline, One month and three month and FFA was performed at baseline. Primary outcome measures were measurement of initial and final BCVA and CFT. SPSS 13.0 was used for the analysis of data.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age of study population was 36.66 ± 6.24 years. On OCT mean CFT at baseline was 467.49 ± 144.80 µm in affected eye, whereas mean CFT measurements at final follow up was 244.67 ± 32.99 µm (p <0.01). Presenting mean log MAR BCVA was 0.47 ± 0.25 and final mean log MAR BCVA was 0.18 ± 0.14 (p <0.01). Baseline BCVA showed statistically significant association with final BCVA (p=0.03).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Presenting VA of 6/12 or better is associated with favorable visual outcome in patients with acute CSCR.
authors.affiliation: Dr. Qamar Ul Islam, FCPS (Ophthalmology), FCPS (VRO). Department of Ophthalmology, PNS Shifa Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Qamar Ul
authors.initials: QU
authors.lastname: Islam
authors.affiliation: Dr. Muhammad Asad Farooq, MBBS. Department of Ophthalmology, CMH Multan.
authors.forename: Muhammad Asad
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Farooq
authors.affiliation: Dr. Mohammad Asim Mehboob, MBBS. Department of Ophthalmology, PNS Shifa Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Mohammad Asim
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Mehboob
keywords: Central Serous Retinopathy; Optical coherence Tomography; Visual acuity