[A contribution about serious ophthalmic complications with oral contraceptives (author's transl)]

The treatment with oral contraceptives leads infrequently to serious thrombo-embolic cases of sickness in the eye and in the central nervous system with mostly irreversible results. Here is reported about three such cases in which--after intake of oral contraceptives with low-dose portion of oestrogen--ophthalmic complications have appeared, in which by reason of comprehensive internal, neurological and neuroradiological examinations, this treatment has very probably released the ophthalmic complications. As soon as there are appearing migraine-like headache attacks and vision disorders under treatment with oral contraceptives, termination of the treatment is recommended.