Cyclosporin A-induced reversible cortical blindness.

Abstract

Despite the occurrence of serious side effects, the use of cyclosporin A after organ transplantation has increased because of its ability to effectively suppress allograft rejection. Its use in the treatment of ophthalmic disease has also recently increased. Central nervous system toxicity due to cyclosporin A is a significant but apparently clinically reversible side effect. A liver transplant patient in whom cortical blindness from profound neurotoxicity was the initial presentation is described. Neurologic abnormalities, including cortical blindness, resolved completely after discontinuation of cyclosporin A. However, pathologic studies performed 8.5 months after the initial transplant revealed residual central nervous system demyelination.

• Authors: S E Wilson, P C de Groen, A J Aksamit, R H Wiesner, J A Garrity, R A Krom
• Journal: Journal of clinical neuro-ophthalmology (J Clin Neuroophthalmol) Vol. 8 Issue 4 Pg. 215-20 (Dec 1988) ISSN: 0272-846X [Print] United States
• PMID: 2977135 (Publication Type: Case Reports, Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)

Chemical References

• Cyclosporins

Topics

• Blindness (chemically induced, pathology)
• Brain (pathology)
• Cyclosporins (adverse effects)
• Female
• Humans
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Middle Aged
• Occipital Lobe (drug effects)
• Tomography, X-Ray Computed