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Published on: November 4, 2010
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1Universitätsaugenklinik Tübingen, Abteilung für Pathophysiologie des Sehens und Neuroophthalmologie, Tübingen. petra.weckerle@med.uni-tuebingen.de
Abstract:
A 46-year-old patient was referred as an emergency case to our neuro-ophthalmologic department, because her left pupil was mydriatic and unreactive since the morning of the same day. This pupil did not constrict normally on application of 1 % pilocarpin eye drops. Thus the diagnosis of a medication-induced mydriasis was established. The causative agent proved to be an aerosol, containing ipratropium bromide used for asthma treatment.
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