Systemic Medications and Their Ocular Side Effects

Overview

Journal Cureus

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2025 Jan 2

PMID 39744265

Authors

Mashael Al-Namaeh

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Abstract

Most of the drugs that we use in our everyday clinic cause ocular side effects or toxicity, depending on the drug duration and dose. Eye care physicians should be familiar with any possible ocular side effects linked to these medications, which could save the physicians' time to determine the diagnosis of the ocular irritation or toxicity. Not all medications are listed in this review, but we did go over the most common systemic medications based on our experience seeing patients in our everyday clinic. The ocular adverse effects of the most common drugs used are reviewed in this review article.

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