Yoshiaki Ieki
   Department   Kawasaki Medical School  Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Ophthalmology 1,
   Position   Associate Professor
Article types 症例報告
Language Japanese
Peer review Peer reviewed
Title A case of glaucoma in severe atopic dermatitis
Journal Formal name:The Nishinihon Journal of Dermatology
ISSN code:03869784
Volume, Issue, Page pp.229-233
Author and coauthor Kimura Tetsuko, Yamamoto takenobu, Okazaki Fusako, Ieki Yoshiaki, Fujimoto Wataru
Authorship Corresponding author
Publication date 2016/06
Summary A 29-year-old man with severe atopic dermatitis presented with glaucoma.Besides daily use of topical corticosteroids, he had temporarily taken oral corticosteroids when cutaneous symptoms worsened. It was assumed that the patient was a "steroid responder" and that this trait was closely associated with the development of glaucoma in a setting of therapy with topical corticosteroids to the eyelids.