TAMOXIFEN MACULOPATHY

Date Issued
2015
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Abstract
INTRODUCTION: One of the side effects of tamoxifen therapy is tamoxifen maculopathy.
AIM: To describe clinical, angiographic and optical tomography feathers of tamoxifen maculopathy and to analyze bibliography review of previous studies.
METHODS: Review of history, clinical examination, FFA and OCT findings of the images were conducted.
RESULTS: Five patients with tamoxifen maculopathy, four of them with cellophane maculopathy with or without cystoid macular edema, one case with tamoxifen maculopathy in the eyes with sarcoidosis.
CONCLUSION: Patients receiving tamoxifen should be monitored with OCT for funduscopicaly invisible changes in the inner retinal layers once a year.
Subjects

Tamoxifen

maculopathy

medical maculopathy

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