Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis

A patient of multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis was prescribed an anti-tubercular regimen containing capreomycin. Patient developed optic neuritis 3 months after starting treatment. Investigations did not reveal any specific cause for this ocular condition and on discontinuing capreomycin hi...

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Autores principales: Magazine, Rahul, Pal, Mahuya, Chogtu, Bharti, Nayak, Veena
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927254
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.68436
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author Magazine, Rahul
Pal, Mahuya
Chogtu, Bharti
Nayak, Veena
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Pal, Mahuya
Chogtu, Bharti
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description A patient of multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis was prescribed an anti-tubercular regimen containing capreomycin. Patient developed optic neuritis 3 months after starting treatment. Investigations did not reveal any specific cause for this ocular condition and on discontinuing capreomycin his vision recovered. We conclude that capreomycin is the cause of reversible optic neuritis in our case.
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spelling pubmed-29416192010-10-06 Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis Magazine, Rahul Pal, Mahuya Chogtu, Bharti Nayak, Veena Indian J Pharmacol Case Report A patient of multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis was prescribed an anti-tubercular regimen containing capreomycin. Patient developed optic neuritis 3 months after starting treatment. Investigations did not reveal any specific cause for this ocular condition and on discontinuing capreomycin his vision recovered. We conclude that capreomycin is the cause of reversible optic neuritis in our case. Medknow Publications 2010-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2941619/ /pubmed/20927254 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.68436 Text en © Indian Journal of Pharmacology 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 Case Report
Magazine, Rahul
Pal, Mahuya
Chogtu, Bharti
Nayak, Veena
Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title_full Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title_fullStr Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title_full_unstemmed Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title_short Capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
title_sort capreomycin-induced optic neuritis in a case of multidrug resistant pulmonary tuberculosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2941619/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927254
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.68436
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