Late bilateral acute angle-closure glaucoma after administration of paroxetine in a patient with plateau iris configuration
| Autor: | Itamar Klemperer, Zvi Tessler, Tova Lifshitz, Marina Shneck, Jaime Levy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Intraocular pressure Visual acuity genetic structures Emmetropia Iris Blurred vision Ophthalmology Magnetic resonance imaging of the brain medicine Humans Depression (differential diagnoses) Intraocular Pressure Ultrasonography Depressive Disorder medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General Medicine Middle Aged Paroxetine eye diseases Surgery Acute Disease Antidepressive Agents Second-Generation Female sense organs medicine.symptom Headaches business Glaucoma Angle-Closure Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Canadian journal of ophthalmology. Journal canadien d'ophtalmologie. 39(7) |
| ISSN: | 0008-4182 |
| Popis: | A 54-year-old emmetropic woman presented with a 3-day history of bilateral blurred vision and eye pain. Because of headaches of 3 months' duration, she underwent a neurologic examination, including com puted tomography and magnetic resonance imaging of the brain; the scans were completely normal. Two months earlier she had started oral therapy with paroxetine, 20 mg/d, for the treatment of depression. She was taking no other medications. Her ocular history was unremarkable. At examination her visual acuity was 6/60 in both eyes. Slit-lamp examination showed bilateral diffuse corneal epithelial edema, with no evidence of intraocular inflammation. The intraocular pressure (lOP) was 57 mm Hg in the right |
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