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Klin Monbl Augenheilkd 2023; 240(04): 566-568
DOI: 10.1055/a-2004-5504
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When Your Patient Needs New Glasses Every Day

Wenn die Patientin jeden Tag eine neue Brille benötigt
Dominique Prétot
1   Ophthalmology, Heuberger Eye Clinic AG, Olten, Switzerland
,
Katrin Marie Engesser
1   Ophthalmology, Heuberger Eye Clinic AG, Olten, Switzerland
,
Torsten Schlote
1   Ophthalmology, Heuberger Eye Clinic AG, Olten, Switzerland
2   Ophthalmology, Ambimed Eye Clinic, Basel, Switzerland
,
Maria Della Volpe
1   Ophthalmology, Heuberger Eye Clinic AG, Olten, Switzerland
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Background

Inflammatory eye diseases have numerous etiologies. Here, we report on a rare case of intermittent bilateral myopic shifts in a healthy, young patient with initially no clinical manifestation of the underlying inflammatory cause.



Publication History

Received: 14 October 2022

Accepted: 21 December 2022

Article published online:
25 April 2023

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