A patient on amiodarone is diagnosed to have cornea veicillate. What should be management-: (A) Stop the drug, (B) Penetrating keratoplasty, (C) Lamellar keratoplasty, (D) Observation
Answer is A. This is a whorl-like opacity in the corneal epithelium seen in patients on long term treatment with medication such as amiodarone,chloroquine,phenothiazine and indomethacin. occasionally the condition has been known to cause glare and surface discomfo which responds to topical lubricants. REF:Parson's disease of eye,20th edition,pg no.206.