Abstract
Purpose: To review the literature and to describe a case of bilateral anterior uveitis following systemic administration of moxifloxacin.
Methods: Narrative review of the literature and case report of a 45-year-old female who presented a bilateral conjunctival hyperemia, photophobia and pain after 15 days of treatment with systemic moxifloxacin due to an upper tract respiratory infection.
Results: at slit lamp examination, the patient presented an extensive iris transilumantion, presistent mydriasus, trabecular meshwork hyperpigmentation and secondary glaucoma.
Conclusion: moxifloxacion oral therapy may be responsible for bilateral anterior uveitis, iris transilumation and sphinter paralysis. This is the fith case described in Latin America and the second in Colombia.
Methods: Narrative review of the literature and case report of a 45-year-old female who presented a bilateral conjunctival hyperemia, photophobia and pain after 15 days of treatment with systemic moxifloxacin due to an upper tract respiratory infection.
Results: at slit lamp examination, the patient presented an extensive iris transilumantion, presistent mydriasus, trabecular meshwork hyperpigmentation and secondary glaucoma.
Conclusion: moxifloxacion oral therapy may be responsible for bilateral anterior uveitis, iris transilumation and sphinter paralysis. This is the fith case described in Latin America and the second in Colombia.
| Translated title of the contribution | Secuelas graves de uveítis anterior bilateral no granulomatosa crónica secundaria al uso de moxifloxacina oral: Reporte de un caso |
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| Original language | English |
| Pages (from-to) | 1-14 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Ocular Immunology and Inflammation |
| State | Submitted - Sep 20 2018 |