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Letter to the Editor
Oriental herbal medicine induced epithelial keratopathy
  1. TORU AKATSU,
  2. RUTH M SANTO,
  3. KIYOO NAKAYASU,
  4. ATSUSHI KANAI
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University School of Medicine
  1. Kiyoo Nakayasu, MD, Department of Ophthalmology, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 3-1-3, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8431, Japan

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.84.8.928f

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    Editor,—“Kampo” is the name given to an oriental herb medicine which has been used in China and Japan for more than 2000 years. Kampo is believed to be very mild and a safe medicine and so far there has been no report of kampo induced keratopathy.

    We report a case of epithelial keratopathy, which occurred in a patient who had taken oral oriental herbal medicine for 5 years. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of oriental herbal medicine (kampo) induced keratopathy.

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