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Presenile cataracts in hydantoin-treated epileptic patients
Metabolic, Pediatric, and Systemic Ophthalmology
|January 1, 1983
Abstract:
Two young epileptic adults developed cataracts resembling presenile diabetic lens changes, while on prolonged antiepileptic treatment with phenobarbitone and diphenylhydantoin (DPH). A research study on rats supported our view on the cataractogenic action of DPH.