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D.G. C.

Arch Ophthalmol. 1962;67(4):397-398.

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Some few months ago Medical World News carried the story of an anticholesteremic agent, triparanol (MER/29), causing cataracts. The source of the story was a panel discussion of the District of Columbia Medical Society, and the cataracts were said to have been observed at the Mayo Clinic.

Since triparanol is estimated to have been given to some 300,000 patients, its possibly cataractogenic properties are of no little concern to ophthalmologists. Our casual search failed to reveal any pertinent report in the ophthalmic literature. Enquiry from the Mayo Clinic disclosed less confidence in the observations than had been represented in the reports of the panel discussion. Four patients had apparently been seen with cataracts suggestively related to triparanol, but the evidence was not yet considered by the properly cautious observers to warrant reporting even at a local staff meeting. Yet, like the prophet a long way from home, the subject was . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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See solicited letter in Correspondence section of this issue.

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