ABSTRACT
Department o f Optometry, School o f Optometry, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
• Anticholinergic Drugs • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Antiadrenergic Drugs • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Cardiovascular Drugs • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Antipsychotic Agents and Ethanol • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Chemotherapeutic Agents • Ocular Manifestations • Pathogenesis • Patient Management
• Antituberculosis Drugs • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Antimalarial Compounds • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Antineoplastics • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Isotretinoin • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Corticosteroids • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Gold Compounds • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Oral Contraceptives • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Photosensitizing Drugs • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• Talc • Pathogenesis • Ocular Manifestations • Patient Management
• References
During the past several decades considerable attention has been devoted to how sys temic drug therapy can affect ocular tissues or visual functions. Various monographs and major reviews have addressed this subject (Fraunfelder, 1982; Jaanus et al., 1995), and mechanisms have been devised that encourage reporting of possible cause-and-effect relationships between systemic drug use and ocular effects (Fraun felder and Meyer, 1982). By encouraging the reporting of such relationships, it is hoped that our understanding of ocular toxicity associated with systemic drugs will be improved and that, ultimately, patient care will be enhanced by preventing such adverse reactions or by finding better methods of treating such effects once they occur.
