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Acute angle-closure glaucoma after albuterol nebulizer treatment
1Department of Ophthalmology, Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital, New York, New York, USA. dsrho@juno.com
American Journal of Ophthalmology
|September 27, 2000
Abstract
Purpose:
To report acute angle-closure glaucoma associated with albuterol nebulizer treatment.
Methods:
Case report and review of the relevant literature.
Results:
In a 75-year-old woman with asthma, acute angle-closure glaucoma in the right eye was probably caused by local absorption of albuterol after nebulizer administration.
Conclusion:
As albuterol is widely used in the management of patients with asthma, increased awareness by health care professionals of the potential for acute angle-closure glaucoma secondary to albuterol may decrease the incidence of this complication.