Photodynamic therapy for chronic serous detachment of the retinal pigment epithelium in a young patient

Recently, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has proven beneficial in the treatment of chronic central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR). As with CSCR, chronic serous retinal pigment epithelial detachment (RPED) can also lead to a significant decrease in visual acuity. We describe a case of chronic serous RPED in a young patient that progressively worsened over several years but regressed markedly, with improvement in visual acuity, after PDT with verteporfin.