Eye Complication Aspects of Corticosteroid Use
0 Anterior and posterior subcapsular cataracts
0 Bacterial and fungal infections
0 Glaucoma
Leukocoria and Ocular Syndromes
0 Receiving a white light reflex from the pupil (white pupil).
REASONS:
• Retinoblastoma (most important cause; frequency: 1/20000)
• Congenital cataract (most common cause: 15/10000)
• Senile cataract
• Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP)
• Retinal detachment
• Congenital toxoplasmosis
• Primary hyperplastic persistent vitreous (PHPV)
• Retinal dysplasia
• Coats' disease
• Nematode endophthalmitis
Coats Disease:
• It is congenital retinal telangiectasia that is almost always unilateral and progresses with vascular anomalies, causing exudation and eventually exudative retinal detachment.
• It usually progresses with leukocoria, vision loss and strabismus in boys and adolescents in the first decade.
