Purpose: To describe the ophthalmoscopic and videoangio-graphic findings with sodium fluorescein and indocyanine green (ICG-V) in pregnancy toxemia (PT). Methods: Four female patients with PT underwent ophthal-mologic evaluation and fluorescein angiography, comple-mented in two of them with digital indocyanine green videoangiography (ICG-V). Results: All patients presented with bilateral serous retinal detachment that spontaneously regressed after arterial pressure stabilization. The fluorescein angiography disclo-sed early multiple patchy nonperfusion choroidal areas and hyperfluorescent spots with leakage and late pooling in the areas of serous retinal detachment. In the late lesions window defect hyperfluorescence and pigmentary blockage were observed. The ICG-V showed early choroidal nonper-fusion and multiple hyperfluorescent spots with late areas of dye pooling. Conclusions: PT is generally associated with recovery of vision after resolution of the disease, although some vision loss may persist due to pigmentary changes in the macular region. The ICG-V better shows the choroidal involvement in the pathogenesis of the serous retinal detachment in PT, previously suggested by fluorescein angiographic studies.
Pregnancy toxemia; Opththalmoscopy fin-dings; Indocyanine green angiography; Fluorescein angiography
