Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment

Drug-induced secondary angle closure is quite common and in the majority of cases simply stopping the medication leads to rapid reversal of the condition and resolution of glaucoma. We describe here a patient who presented with secondary angle closure glaucoma and myopia following mefenamic acid ing...

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Autores principales: Vishwakarma, Parag, Raman, Ganesh V, Sathyan, P
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19700884
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.55066
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author Vishwakarma, Parag
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description Drug-induced secondary angle closure is quite common and in the majority of cases simply stopping the medication leads to rapid reversal of the condition and resolution of glaucoma. We describe here a patient who presented with secondary angle closure glaucoma and myopia following mefenamic acid ingestion which was managed successfully by stopping the medication, symptomatic treatment and reassurance.
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spelling pubmed-28041342010-01-14 Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment Vishwakarma, Parag Raman, Ganesh V Sathyan, P Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications Drug-induced secondary angle closure is quite common and in the majority of cases simply stopping the medication leads to rapid reversal of the condition and resolution of glaucoma. We describe here a patient who presented with secondary angle closure glaucoma and myopia following mefenamic acid ingestion which was managed successfully by stopping the medication, symptomatic treatment and reassurance. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2804134/ /pubmed/19700884 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.55066 Text en © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Brief Communications
Vishwakarma, Parag
Raman, Ganesh V
Sathyan, P
Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title_full Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title_fullStr Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title_full_unstemmed Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title_short Mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
title_sort mefenamic acid-induced bilateral transient myopia, secondary angle closure glaucoma and choroidal detachment
topic Brief Communications
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19700884
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.55066
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