[Cortisone-related glaucoma]

Abstract

The cortisonical treatment has been more and more used in the last years, with an anti-inflammatory purpose, in ocular and general affections. The most severe ocular complications due to the prolonged treatment are the cortisonic glaucomas and the cortisonic cataract, both determining serious alterations of the visual function. The paper present the case of a patient, female, who was diagnosed five years before with pemphigus vulgaris, for which she has followed a prolonged cortisonic treatment. The ophthalmological examination has revealed the association with an open angle glaucomas and with a cortical posterior cataract, both having as a possible cause the prolonged prednisonic treatment. In order to prevent the affection we have to impose both the good judgement in prescribing the cortisonic medication and the periodical control of intraocular pressure in prolonged corticotherapy.