Rapidly Developing Large Bilateral Cataracts in a 58-Year-Old Woman After only 46 Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments

Hagan, J.C.; Maturo, J.V.; Kirby, J.P.; Hagan, J.C; Maturo, J.V; Kirby, J.P

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Rapidly Developing Large Bilateral Cataracts in a 58-Year-Old Woman After only 46 Hyperbaric Oxygen Treatments

Hagan, J.C.; Maturo, J.V.; Kirby, J.P.

Missouri Medicine 116(5): 396-399

2019

ISSN/ISBN: 0026-6620

PMID: 31645792

Document Number: 699089

We are reporting a 52-year-old female that developed documented vision impairing, large, bilateral nuclear and cortical cataracts during therapy after 46 treatments of a planned 60 treatment course of HBO2 for a non-healing post-radiation leg wound. A review of the available literature makes this one of the earliest cases of cataract formation.