Progressive hydroxychloroquine toxicity mimicking low-tension glaucoma after discontinuation of the drug: Diagnosis/therapy in ophthalmology

Acta Ophthalmologica

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 156-157

  Vavvas, Demetrios ^a   Huynh, Nancy ^a   Pasquale, Louis ^a   Berson, Eliot L ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISCOID LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAOCULAR PRESSURE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELANGIECTASIA; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; ATROPHY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN ANGIOGRAPHY; FOVEA CENTRALIS; FUNDUS OCULI; HUMANS; HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE; LOW TENSION GLAUCOMA; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, DISCOID; RETINAL DISEASES; RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM; TELANGIECTASIS; TIME FACTORS; VISION DISORDERS; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 76149126090     PISSN: 1755375X     EISSN: 17553768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-3768.2008.01359.x     Document Type: Article

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