Toxic keratitis after use of wrongly labeled non-ophthalmic medication
- Al-Amry, Mohammad A.
- Al-Abdan, Nada
- AL-Othaimeen, Saleh A.
Publication date
June 2015
DOI Publisher
The Authors. Production and hosting by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of King Saud University.Abstract
AbstractWe present a 24-year-old female with trauma to her right eye. The patient was prescribed topical Tobramicin-dexamethasone eye drops but the pharmacy dispensed diclofenac diethyl amine ointment. The patient presented to the emergency room with lid edema, conjunctival injection and a corneal epithelial defect and toxic keratitis. The patient was successfully managed with copious irrigation, bandage contact lens and topical antibiotic therapy
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