Monocular visual loss in a patient undergoing cisplatin chemotherapy.
Chemotherapeutic agents used against tumours have a variety of toxic effects. We describe a case of acute blindness in the left eye of a patient after treatment with cisplatin for lung cancer. Both the clinical findings and the absence of either ocular or retrobulbar metastasis suggested that the condition was related to chemotoxicity.
Gonzalez
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Servicio de Oftalmologia, Facultad de Medicina, Complejo Hospitalario Universitario de Santiago, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. francisco.gonzalez@usc.es
Menendez
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Gomez-Ulla
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D000328:Adult; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002945:Cisplatin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000009:adverse effects*; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D014786:Vision Disorders / Q000139:chemically induced*; D015349:Vision, Monocular / Q000187:drug effects*
D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D002945:Cisplatin