Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/33165
Title: BULL’S EYE: IS THIS PHENOMENON GIVEN ENOUGH ATTENTION
Authors: Gjeorgjieva Janev, Olivera 
Mediha Lushi Selimi
Pecanova, Blagica
Pachoska, Vesna
Karanfilovski, Vlatko 
Pandilov, Stefan
Damjanovska Krstikj, Ljubinka 
Keywords: Bull’s eye
retinopathy
hydroxychloroquine
Issue Date: 2024
Publisher: Macedonian Association of Anatomists and Morphologists
Journal: Journal of Morphological Sciences
Abstract: Chloroquine maculopathy is not such a rare complication of long-term use of chloroquine preparations in the treatment of rheumatological diseases. Its early detection is of exceptional importance for timely discontinuation of the drug in order to preventirreversible vision damage.The aim of this Article is to present a case of a 62-year-old patient with bull's eye maculopathy as a result of long-term use of chloroquine due to systemic lupus erythematosus. The patient appeared with blurring and distortion of the pericentral vision. She was ophthalmologically evaluated with fundoscopic examination, autofluorescence, perimetry, optical coherent tomography which together with her medical history established a diagnosis of chloroquine maculopathy. Chloroquine therapy was discontinued and the patient is regularly monitored by a Rheumatologist and an Ophthalmologist, with no disease progression so far.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/33165
DOI: 10.55302/JMS2473144gj
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