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what is a side effect of medications that decrease accomodative ability?
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early onset presbyopia
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what should we return to when trying to recall the effect of meds on accommodation?
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the near triad of focusing, convergence and pupil miosis
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what system influences accommodation and convergence? (para or symp?)
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parasympathetic system
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what other type of drugs beside parasympathetic drugs impair the near triad?
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sympathetic drugs
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what do parasympathomimetic drugs cause?
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increased accommodation
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what is a direct acting parasympathomimetic (known as "slobber weed")
-what two things is it used for? |
Pilocarpine
-used since 1870 as a topical to treat glaucoma since it is a miotic, -also used as the oral med Salagen to treat Sjogren Syndrome |
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what are two indirect acting cholinesterase inhibitors acting as parasympathomimetics?
-what do they treat, what is their effect on accommodation? |
1. Physostigmine (used to treat Myasthenia Gravis)
2. Echothiophate (phsopholine iodide - used to treat uncorrected hyperopia) |
