Ocular Complications of Drugs

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Local and systemic administration of certain drugs has resulted in many forms of visual complications. These include blurred vision, disturbances in color vision, scotomata, pigmentary degeneration of the retina, and damage to the cornea, retina, and optic nerve. The drugs responsible for various of these adverse effects include those that are retinotoxic: the cardiac glycosides, the quinolines, and the phenothiazines; and those that produce toxic optic neuropathies: chlorpropamide, the corticosteroids, and chloramphenicol. Careful ophthalmologic screening whenever possible of patients who are to receive systemically administered drugs is suggested.

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