Ocular Reactions to Antimalarial Drugs

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The dermatologist not infrequently encounters patients receiving antimalarial drugs for lupus erythematosus who complain of visual difficulties. He may then be in a quandary as to whether the disease or the treatment has caused his patient's symptoms. Antimalarials are prescribed chiefly for discoid L.E. Some reports, however,1-3 have indicated the beneficial effects of these drugs in systemic L.E. In fact, there are dermatologists and internists who like to administer antimalarials in conjunction with corticosteroids even during the acute episode of systemic L.E. Others administer antimalarials only during the subacute phase of systemic L.E. or during a remission. These drugs certainly have fewer undesiraable side-effects than the corticosteroids. The ocular lesions which have been observed in L.E. have invariably occurred in the systemic variant of this disease. Conjunctival and comeal lesions may occasionally occur in association with discoid L.E., particularly if the eyelids are involved. Conjunctival lesions appear as erythematous

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