Tamsulosin and the intraoperative floppy iris syndrome

JAMA

Volumn 301, Issue 19, 2009, Pages 2044-2045

  Friedman, Alan H ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; DUASTERIDE; ENZYME INHIBITOR; FINASTERIDE; HOMATROPINE; SABAL EXTRACT; SILODOSIN; TAMSULOSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ALPHA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; SULFONAMIDE;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EDITORIAL; ENDOPHTHALMITIS; EYE SURGERY; GLAUCOMA SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE FLOPPY IRIS SYNDROME; IRIDECTOMY; IRIS ATROPHY; IRIS DISEASE; LENS LUXATION; MIOSIS; MYDRIASIS; NEPHROLITHIASIS; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PUPIL REFLEX; RETINA DETACHMENT; RISK; SABAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYNDROME; VISCOSITY; VITREOUS BODY; VITREOUS OPACITY; AGED; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG CONTRAINDICATION; IRIS; MALE; METABOLISM; NOTE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; VASCULARIZATION;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; CATARACT EXTRACTION; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; IRIS; IRIS DISEASES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC, ALPHA-1; SULFONAMIDES;

EID: 65649126776     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2009.704     Document Type: Editorial

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