Ocular Toxicity Secondary to Asclepias physocarpa: The Balloon Plant

We report a case of a 65-year-old woman with symptoms of blurred vision and ocular irritation a few hours after accidental contact of the right eye with Asclepias physocarpa milky latex. Observation showed a diffuse conjunctival hyperemia and stromal corneal edema with Descemet's membrane folds...

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Autores principales: Pina, Susana, Pedrosa, Catarina, Santos, Cristina, Feijóo, Bernardo, Pego, Peter, Vendrell, Cristina, Santos, Maria João, Prieto, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4101946/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25105044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/829469
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author Pina, Susana
Pedrosa, Catarina
Santos, Cristina
Feijóo, Bernardo
Pego, Peter
Vendrell, Cristina
Santos, Maria João
Prieto, Isabel
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Santos, Cristina
Feijóo, Bernardo
Pego, Peter
Vendrell, Cristina
Santos, Maria João
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description We report a case of a 65-year-old woman with symptoms of blurred vision and ocular irritation a few hours after accidental contact of the right eye with Asclepias physocarpa milky latex. Observation showed a diffuse conjunctival hyperemia and stromal corneal edema with Descemet's membrane folds. Recovery was fast and apparently complete in less than one month. However, specular microscopy at 6-months follow-up showed an abnormal endothelial morphology as sequelae, suggesting this condition is not as innocuous as it has been suggested.
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spelling pubmed-41019462014-08-07 Ocular Toxicity Secondary to Asclepias physocarpa: The Balloon Plant Pina, Susana Pedrosa, Catarina Santos, Cristina Feijóo, Bernardo Pego, Peter Vendrell, Cristina Santos, Maria João Prieto, Isabel Case Rep Ophthalmol Med Case Report We report a case of a 65-year-old woman with symptoms of blurred vision and ocular irritation a few hours after accidental contact of the right eye with Asclepias physocarpa milky latex. Observation showed a diffuse conjunctival hyperemia and stromal corneal edema with Descemet's membrane folds. Recovery was fast and apparently complete in less than one month. However, specular microscopy at 6-months follow-up showed an abnormal endothelial morphology as sequelae, suggesting this condition is not as innocuous as it has been suggested. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC4101946/ /pubmed/25105044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/829469 Text en Copyright © 2014 Susana Pina et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Ocular Toxicity Secondary to Asclepias physocarpa: The Balloon Plant
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title_sort ocular toxicity secondary to asclepias physocarpa: the balloon plant
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/829469
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