Vision Loss Associated With the Opioid Epidemic

JAMA Ophthalmol. 2017 Dec 1;135(12):1449-1451. doi: 10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2017.4868.

Authors

Preston M Luong¹, Edmund Tsui², Nikhil Batra³, Christopher B Chapman³, Michael E Zegans³

Affiliations

¹ Currently a medical student at Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire
² Department of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, New York
³ Section of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

Abstract

This medical record review study compares the clinical characteristics of endogenous endophthalmitis in patients with and without injection drug use.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Analgesics, Opioid*
Blindness / diagnosis
Blindness / etiology*
Endophthalmitis / diagnosis
Endophthalmitis / etiology*
Female
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Opioid-Related Disorders / etiology*
Substance Abuse, Intravenous / etiology*
United States / epidemiology
Young Adult

Substances

Analgesics, Opioid