| Past Issue | Volume 9 Number 2 April 2007 | | Bilateral Acute Angle Closure Glaucoma following Administration of Oral Pseudoephedrine for Sinusitis |
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Rohit Sharma, Andrew Waldock
Eye Unit, Luton & Dunstable NHS Trust, Luton, UK
This report is of a patient with bilateral simultaneous angle closure glaucoma induced by oral pseudoephedrine administered for sinusitis. A 62-year-old woman presented with features of bilateral acute angle closure. She had been using oral Sinutab (pseudoephedrine and paracetamol) for sinusitis for 3 days prior to presentation and drug-induced glaucoma was diagnosed.
Key words: Ephedrine, Glaucoma, angle closure, Sinusitis
Asian J Ophthalmol. 2007;9:87-88.
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