Journal of Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology
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Prakash Shikha

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• Case Report
  Homeopathic Medicine as an Exacerbating Factor of Central Serous Chorioretinopathy
  Author(s): Prakash Gunjan, Jain Shephali, Bajaj Leena, Prakash Shikha and Bist HKPrakash Gunjan, Jain Shephali, Bajaj Leena, Prakash Shikha and Bist HK
  
  Title: Homeopathic medicine as an exacerbating factor of central serous chorioretinopathy. Purpose: To investigate the relationship between steroid-containing homeopathic medicines and central serous chorioretinopathy (CSCR). Materials and methods: A retrospective evaluation of 102 cases of CSCR presenting over a period of 5 years was performed. Patients receiving homeopathic medications were identified. Results: Three patients with active CSCR reported using homeopathic medicines for hemorrhoids. The medications had been taken for 4 months, 3 months and one and one-half months before the patients presented to the eye clinic. In each case the medicine was discontinued and the CSCR resolved completely within 4 to 6 weeks. Two patients who restarted the same homeopathic medicine developed recurrent .. View More»
  

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