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© 1997 Oxford University Press

book-review

Glaucoma therapy may take your breath away

PAUL DIGGORY and WENDY A. FRANKS1

Department of Elderly Care Medicine, Mayday Hospital Mayday Road, Croydon CR7 7YE, UK
1Consultant in Ophthalmology, Glaucoma Unit Moorfields Eye Hospital City Road, London ECIV 2PD, UK

Address correspondence to: P. Diggory. Fax; (+44) 171 828 2564

Chronic simple glaucoma is a common disease in old age and lowering intraocular pressure is the treatment strategy. Although this can be achieved surgically, medical treatment with eye drops is more often prescribed. ß-antagonists are the class of drug most often chosen, although other medical therapies are available. Systemic absorption of ß-antagonist eye drops can cause unsuspected respiratory impairment. Physicians should be alert to the possibility of respiratory side-effects of topical therapy with ß-antagonists and whenever such side-effects occur should use alternative treatments.

Keywords: ß-antagonists, glaucoma, respiratory impairment

Received October 10, 1996;
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