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Iodine-Induced Retinopathy: A Case Report
Sabiha Güngör Kobat1, Fatih Cem Gül1, Burak Turgut2
1University of Health Sciences Turkey Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology, Elazığ, Turkey.
Turkish Journal of Ophthalmology
|August 29, 2020
Abstract:
Potassium iodide is used as an iodine supplement in salt as part of a national program in Turkey. An overdose of iodine has a toxic effect on the retinal pigment epithelium and photoreceptors. The case presented here is a patient who developed retinopathy following consumption of an excessive dose of iodine.

