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YEAR: 1968

CATEGORY: Contraception (Birth Control) and Family Planning

TITLE

Hormone contraception: ophthalmologic investigations.

AUTHORS

Faust JW

SOURCE

In: Hoffman, F., ed. Advanced concepts in contraception. (Proceedings of four

symposia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.) New York, Excerpta

Medica Foundation, 1968. p.12-13

ABSTRACT

A detailed study was begun in 1963 at the Los Angeles Family Planning Center to investigate the possibility of

ophthalmologic changes that might have developed in patients using oral contraceptives. In 1965 certain neuro-

ophthalmologic conditions occurring in patients taking oral contraceptives were noted in the Archives of

Ophthalmology. Central vein thrombosis of the eye, lateral rectus muscle palsy, papilledema, optic neuritis,

retrobulbar neuritis, retinal central artery occlusion, vitreous hemorrhage, and proptosis were among other

complications reported in patients taking the pill from 2 days to 3 years. It is estimated that 1 case of neuro-

ophthalmic pathology was reported for 80,000 women in the United States taking orals and 1 case of ocular

pathology occurred in every 230,000 women taking these hormones. In 1965 212 patients on oral contraceptives

were examined at the Los Angeles Family Planning Center. Medication taken included Enovid, Ortho-Novum,

Provest, Ovulen, and Ortho-Novum SQ administered from less than a year to more than 3 years. Various forms of

cataract were present in 103 eyes (25%). In 6 the cataract was potentially progressive. One complicated cataract

was of 5 years duration in a patient who had taken Ovulen for 1 1/2 years. The condition was considered due to

uveitis. No others were of the classic complicated toxic type nor did they interfere with vision. There was no relation

of these cataracts to steroid therapy. Later a group of 26 patients taking medroxyprogesterone injections every 3

months for more than 1 year and a group of 22 patients taking estradiol enanthate injections monthly for more than 1

year were examined. In all eye pathology was the same as a random sample of the population using no steroid

contraceptives. These examinations have not revealed any cause-and-effect relationship between eye pathology and

the use of steroid contraceptives. (PubHealth.info Document ID: CONT9T 1082-06)

PubHealth.info NOTE: The author(s) of this article titled, "Hormone contraception: ophthalmologic investigations.",

is(are) Faust JW. The source of this article is "In: Hoffman, F., ed. Advanced concepts in contraception.

(Proceedings of four symposia, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Boston.) New York, Excerpta Medica

Foundation, 1968. p.12-13". This article was published in 1968 in English language(s). (PubHealth.info® Document

ID: CONT9T 1082-06. All rights reserved with PubHealth.info) PIN: 41082

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