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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 214

Risperidone-induced cataract in a young female


Department of Ophthalmology, Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India

Date of Web Publication19-Dec-2019

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Dr. Jagat Ram
Department of Ophthalmology, Advanced Eye Centre, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Sector 12, Chandigarh - 160 012
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1517_19

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Balamurugan R, Gupta P C, Kashyap H, Ram J. Risperidone-induced cataract in a young female. Indian J Ophthalmol 2020;68:214

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Balamurugan R, Gupta P C, Kashyap H, Ram J. Risperidone-induced cataract in a young female. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 28];68:214. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/1/214/273199



A 19-year-old female, with no preexisting comorbidities, presented with complaints of gradually progressive diminution of vision in both eyes for last 1 year. The patient had a traumatic brain injury 2 years back after which she developed schizophrenia-like psychosis (persecutory delusions and hallucinations) and was prescribed risperidone 2 mg/day. There was no family history of childhood cataract.

On examination, best corrected visual acuity in both the eyes was 20/200. The cornea was clear and the lens had posterior subcapsular cataract and cortical cataract [Figure 1]. Posterior segment examination was normal. The patient was advised to undergo cataract surgery.
Figure 1: Intraoperative photo of the left eye showing posterior subcapsular and cortical cataract

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Cataract has been associated with long-term usage of corticosteroids, phenothiazines, antipsychotics, cytostatic drugs, deferoxamine, phenytoin, isotretinoin, oral contraceptives, allopurinol, antimalarial drugs, diazepam, tetracyclines and sulfonamides.[1]

To our knowledge, this is the third case showing a potential association between cataracts and risperidone since our patient had a lack of risk factors including no metabolic abnormalities, a normal baseline eye examination (done elsewhere) and no prior history of cataract.[2],[3]

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1.
Shahzad S, Suleman MI, Shahab H, Mazour I, Kaur A, Rudzinskiy P, et al. Cataract occurrence with antipsychotic drugs. Psychosomatics 2002;43:354-9.  Back to cited text no. 1
    
2.
Dsouza MC. Could risperidone have caused the cataract?: A case report and review of literature. J Res Psychiatry Behav Sci 2015;1:25-6.  Back to cited text no. 2
    
3.
Patel E, Gallego JA. Bilateral cataracts in a young patient with bipolar disorder on treatment with risperidone. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2016;50:1210.  Back to cited text no. 3
    


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