Ophthalmic Surg. 1987 Aug; 18(8): 608-11.

Idiopathic central serous retinopathy in China: a report of 600 cases (624 eyes) treated by acupuncture.

Lu JG, Friberg TR.

Department of Ophthalmology of the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhe-Jiang Medical University, Hang-Zhou, China.

Six hundred Chinese patients (624 eyes) with clinically diagnosed central serous retinopathy were treated by consecutive courses of acupuncture. Eighty-six percent of patients had resolution of their subretinal fluid within 3 months of treatment, a result similar to the natural history of the disease as reported by others in non-Chinese patients. Central serous retinopathy was most common in the 30 to 50 year age group, occurred in males seven times more frequently than in females, and was bilateral in 4% of patients.