TY  - JOUR
T1  - REtinal detachment and fluoroquinolones
AU  - Aristodemou P, Stylianides AC
Y1  - 2012/07/18
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2012.6618
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 233
EP  - 233
VL  - 308
IS  - 3
N2  - 
First, the timing of fluoroquinolone use and the treatment for a retinal detachment were very short. The association was only present for current fluoroquinolone users, not for those with recent or past use. If there was a change in the vitreous that could precipitate a retinal detachment, a retinal detachment would be expected to take some time to develop. There is usually a time lag of several days or weeks between the development of a posterior vitreous detachment and the formation of retinal breaks that may lead to a retinal detachment.2 For this reason, the association between retinal detachment and fluoroquinolone use would have been expected to hold for those with recent fluoroquinolone use as well.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2012.6618
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2012.6618
ER  -