Lorazepam-induced diplopia

Diplopia – seeing double – is a symptom with many potential causes, both neurological and ophthalmological. Benzodiazepine induced ocular side-effects are rarely reported. Lorazepam is one of the commonly used benzodiazepine in psychiatric practice. Visual problems associated with administration of...

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Autores principales: Lucca, Jisha M., Ramesh, Madhan, Parthasarathi, Gurumurthy, Ram, Dushad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Drug Watch
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3987197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24741200
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.129328
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author Lucca, Jisha M.
Ramesh, Madhan
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Ram, Dushad
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description Diplopia – seeing double – is a symptom with many potential causes, both neurological and ophthalmological. Benzodiazepine induced ocular side-effects are rarely reported. Lorazepam is one of the commonly used benzodiazepine in psychiatric practice. Visual problems associated with administration of lorazepam are rarely reported and the frequency of occurrence is not established. We report a rare case of lorazepam-induced diplopia in a newly diagnosed case of obsessive compulsive disorder.
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spelling pubmed-39871972014-04-16 Lorazepam-induced diplopia Lucca, Jisha M. Ramesh, Madhan Parthasarathi, Gurumurthy Ram, Dushad Indian J Pharmacol Drug Watch Diplopia – seeing double – is a symptom with many potential causes, both neurological and ophthalmological. Benzodiazepine induced ocular side-effects are rarely reported. Lorazepam is one of the commonly used benzodiazepine in psychiatric practice. Visual problems associated with administration of lorazepam are rarely reported and the frequency of occurrence is not established. We report a rare case of lorazepam-induced diplopia in a newly diagnosed case of obsessive compulsive disorder. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3987197/ /pubmed/24741200 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0253-7613.129328 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Pharmacology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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