Amiodarone verticillata causing whorl keratopathy (Photo)
Last updated November 16, 2007
Here you can see a close-up view of a cornea in a patient on amiodarone. Those subtle lines running horizontally are verticillata deposits that can form on the superficial layers of the cornea. This is sometimes called whorl or hurricane keratopathy, and is generally a benign finding only seen under the microscope, with no visual deficits.
This is a pretty magnified view, so if you want to get a better feel for how this looks, you might want to watch our amiodarone whorl keratopathy video from which this snapshot was captured.

