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Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication

We present a 24-year-old female with trauma to her right eye. The patient was prescribed topical Tobramicin-dexamethasone eye drops but the pharmacy dispensed diclofenac diethyl amine ointment. The patient presented to the emergency room with lid edema, conjunctival injection and a corneal epithelia...

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Autores principales: Al-Amry, Mohammad A., Al-Abdan, Nada, AL-Othaimeen, Saleh A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5310139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28223875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2015.06.008
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description We present a 24-year-old female with trauma to her right eye. The patient was prescribed topical Tobramicin-dexamethasone eye drops but the pharmacy dispensed diclofenac diethyl amine ointment. The patient presented to the emergency room with lid edema, conjunctival injection and a corneal epithelial defect and toxic keratitis. The patient was successfully managed with copious irrigation, bandage contact lens and topical antibiotic therapy.
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spelling pubmed-53101392017-02-21 Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication Al-Amry, Mohammad A. Al-Abdan, Nada AL-Othaimeen, Saleh A. Saudi Pharm J Case Report We present a 24-year-old female with trauma to her right eye. The patient was prescribed topical Tobramicin-dexamethasone eye drops but the pharmacy dispensed diclofenac diethyl amine ointment. The patient presented to the emergency room with lid edema, conjunctival injection and a corneal epithelial defect and toxic keratitis. The patient was successfully managed with copious irrigation, bandage contact lens and topical antibiotic therapy. Elsevier 2017-01 2015-06-25 /pmc/articles/PMC5310139/ /pubmed/28223875 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2015.06.008 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title_full Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title_fullStr Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title_full_unstemmed Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title_short Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
title_sort toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5310139/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28223875
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsps.2015.06.008
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