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Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report

Potassium iodide is used as an iodine supplement in salt as part of a national program in Turkey. An overdose of iodine has a toxic effect on the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. The case presented here is a patient who developed retinopathy following consumption of an excessive dose o...

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Autores principales: Güngör Kobat, Sabiha, Gül, Fatih Cem, Turgut, Burak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7469895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32854472
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2020.02686
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spelling pubmed-74698952020-09-17 Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report Güngör Kobat, Sabiha Gül, Fatih Cem Turgut, Burak Turk J Ophthalmol Case Report Potassium iodide is used as an iodine supplement in salt as part of a national program in Turkey. An overdose of iodine has a toxic effect on the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. The case presented here is a patient who developed retinopathy following consumption of an excessive dose of iodine. Galenos Publishing 2020-08 2020-08-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7469895/ /pubmed/32854472 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2020.02686 Text en © Copyright 2020 by Turkish Ophthalmological Association | Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology, published by Galenos Publishing House. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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.
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Güngör Kobat, Sabiha
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Turgut, Burak
Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title_full Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title_fullStr Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title_short Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
title_sort iodine-induced retinopathy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7469895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32854472
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/tjo.galenos.2020.02686
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