Accumulation of serous or exudative fluid beneath the neural retina can result in a retinal detachment.
Differences from rhegmatogenous retinal detachment:
(1) no break or hole in the retina
(2) non-vitreous fluid accumulation
Conditions that may be associated with a serous or exudative retinal detachment:
(1) primary or metastatic ocular tumor
(2) sarcoidosis
(3) infectious retinochoroiditis (syphilis, toxoplasmosis, CMV, tuberculosis)
(4) sympathetic ophthalmia
(5) pre-eclampsia or eclampsia
(6) central serous chorioretinopathy
(7) polypoid choroidal vasculopathy
(8) corticosteroid therapy
(9) organ transplantation
(10) optic nerve pit
(11) acute retinal necrosis
(12) Coats' disease
(13) post-surgical
(14) Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada syndrome
(15) exudative age-related macular degeneration
(16) posterior scleritis
(17) uveal effusion syndrome
(18) familial exudative vitreoretinopathy
(19) orbital inflammation (cellulitis, pseudotumor)
(20) vasculitis
(21) hypertensive crisis
