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Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect
Isotretinoin is an analog of vitamin A, used to treat severe, recalcitrant nodular acne, psoriasis and disorders of keratinization. However, its benefits come with a broad range of serious side effects, including ocular adverse effects. We report and describe a rare case of bilateral myopia in a fem...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513459 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16884 |
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author | Qureshi, Khadija Tariq, Javera Chaudhry, Maida S Pasha, Fajar |
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description | Isotretinoin is an analog of vitamin A, used to treat severe, recalcitrant nodular acne, psoriasis and disorders of keratinization. However, its benefits come with a broad range of serious side effects, including ocular adverse effects. We report and describe a rare case of bilateral myopia in a female patient treated with oral isotretinoin for acne vulgaris. A female patient, 29-year old, presented to the office for blurry vision. The patient was treated with oral isotretinoin for four weeks. She had a past medical history of myopia precisely corrected with laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis without any residual refractive error. After a thorough examination and laboratory workup, isotretinoin was thought to be the causative agent of her current complaint, so it was immediately stopped. The follow-up showed no further decrement of visual acuity in the patient. However, the vision loss acquired as an adverse effect of oral isotretinoin persisted. |
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spelling | pubmed-84158042021-09-10 Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect Qureshi, Khadija Tariq, Javera Chaudhry, Maida S Pasha, Fajar Cureus Dermatology Isotretinoin is an analog of vitamin A, used to treat severe, recalcitrant nodular acne, psoriasis and disorders of keratinization. However, its benefits come with a broad range of serious side effects, including ocular adverse effects. We report and describe a rare case of bilateral myopia in a female patient treated with oral isotretinoin for acne vulgaris. A female patient, 29-year old, presented to the office for blurry vision. The patient was treated with oral isotretinoin for four weeks. She had a past medical history of myopia precisely corrected with laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis without any residual refractive error. After a thorough examination and laboratory workup, isotretinoin was thought to be the causative agent of her current complaint, so it was immediately stopped. The follow-up showed no further decrement of visual acuity in the patient. However, the vision loss acquired as an adverse effect of oral isotretinoin persisted. Cureus 2021-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8415804/ /pubmed/34513459 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16884 Text en Copyright © 2021, Qureshi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/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 author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Dermatology Qureshi, Khadija Tariq, Javera Chaudhry, Maida S Pasha, Fajar Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title | Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title_full | Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title_fullStr | Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title_full_unstemmed | Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title_short | Oral Isotretinoin Resulting in Recurrence of LASIK-Treated Myopia: A Rare Side Effect |
title_sort | oral isotretinoin resulting in recurrence of lasik-treated myopia: a rare side effect |
topic | Dermatology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8415804/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34513459 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16884 |
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