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- Classic visual change: Yellow-green vision (xanthopsia), halos around lights.
- Important because digoxin toxicity and its signs are frequently tested.
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Hydroxychloroquine / Chloroquine
- Classic toxicity: Retinopathy causing irreversible vision loss in chronic use.
- Important for its classic adverse effect in clinical vignettes.
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Ethambutol
- Classic toxicity: Optic neuropathy leading to decreased visual acuity and color vision loss (red-green color blindness).
- Important because of its link with tuberculosis treatment and vision loss.
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Topiramate
- Can cause acute myopia and angle-closure glaucoma.
- Increasingly encountered and thus high-yield.
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Isotretinoin
- Can cause decreased night vision and dry eyes.
- Known teratogen and has ocular toxicity.
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Sildenafil (PDE5 inhibitors)
- Blue tint to vision due to inhibition of PDE6 in retina.
- Commonly tested in physiology and adverse effects.
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Corticosteroids (long-term use)