Intraocular Pressure Increases After Intraarticular Knee Injection With Triamcinolone but Not Hyaluronic Acid.

CONCLUSIONS: There appears to be an associated intraocular pressure elevation found in patients who have undergone a triamcinolone injection of the knee. Further larger scale randomized investigations are warranted to determine the longevity of this pressure elevation as well as long-term clinical implications, including optic nerve damage and visual field loss.
LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level II, therapeutic study.
PMID: 29533245 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research - March 9, 2018 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Taliaferro K, Crawford A, Jabara J, Lynch J, Jung E, Zvirbulis R, Banka T Tags: Clin Orthop Relat Res Source Type: research