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  • Title: Clinical experience and grading of amiodarone keratopathy.
    Author: Orlando RG, Dangel ME, Schaal SF.
    Journal: Ophthalmology; 1984 Oct; 91(10):1184-7. PubMed ID: 6514284.
    Abstract:
    Eighteen patients receiving the cardiac drug amiodarone were followed prospectively for the development of amiodarone keratopathy. Seventeen of 18 patients (94%) developed characteristic epithelial keratopathy in at least one eye within three months of the initiation of therapy. The pattern of the epithelial deposits was noted to undergo progressive changes in configuration as a function of the duration of amiodarone therapy. These evolving changes are well defined and allow development of a grading system for amiodarone keratopathy. A grading system as well as a proposed mechanism for evolving pattern of the keratopathy are presented.
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