Choroidal detachment after the use of topical latanoprost.

PURPOSE: To report a case of delayed choroidal detachment after treatment with topical latanoprost.

METHODS

Interventional case report. Five years after trabeculectomy in a 91-year-old female, a Holmium laser thermal sclerostomy was performed, and a year later, the patient was started on latanoprost.005% every 24 hours and hydrochloride dorzolamide 2% three times daily.

RESULTS

Choroidal detachments developed 2.5 years after the sclerostomy; they resolved after discontinuation of the latanoprost and hydrochloride dorzolamide. Subsequently, the patient inadvertently restarted latanoprost. Again, the latanoprost was stopped, with resolution of the choroidal detachments.

CONCLUSION

Topical latanoprost may lead to choroidal detachments and hypotony.