Alcoholism
Alcoholism 39
General: Classified into three groups; symptoms of mental disease, physiologic poison, or result of social drinking; addiction compounds other health disorders.
Ocular: Congestion of conjunctiva; amblyopia; diplopia; night blindness; nystagmus; cataracts; paralysis of accommodation; paralysis of extraocular muscles; esophoria for distance fixation; acute visual loss; cotton-wool spots; cherry-red spot (associated with pancreatitis).
Clinical: Tremors; seizures; delirium; alcoholic hepatitis; cirrhosis; gastritis; pancreatitis; cancer of mouth and esophagus; peripheral neuropathy; organic brain disease; hypertension; cardiomyopathy; hypoglycemia; anemia; hyperuricemia; susceptibility to infections; skeletal myopathies.
Duane TD, et al. Clinical ophthalmology. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1987:2.
Steel JR, et al. Blind drunk: alcoholic pancreatitis and loss of vision. Postgraduate Med J 1993; 69:151-152.
General: Classified into three groups; symptoms of mental disease, physiologic poison, or result of social drinking; addiction compounds other health disorders.
Ocular: Congestion of conjunctiva; amblyopia; diplopia; night blindness; nystagmus; cataracts; paralysis of accommodation; paralysis of extraocular muscles; esophoria for distance fixation; acute visual loss; cotton-wool spots; cherry-red spot (associated with pancreatitis).
Clinical: Tremors; seizures; delirium; alcoholic hepatitis; cirrhosis; gastritis; pancreatitis; cancer of mouth and esophagus; peripheral neuropathy; organic brain disease; hypertension; cardiomyopathy; hypoglycemia; anemia; hyperuricemia; susceptibility to infections; skeletal myopathies.
Duane TD, et al. Clinical ophthalmology. Philadelphia: JB Lippincott, 1987:2.
Steel JR, et al. Blind drunk: alcoholic pancreatitis and loss of vision. Postgraduate Med J 1993; 69:151-152.



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