This video shows a cornea with amiodarone verticillata deposits. You can see these as a whorl pattern - the entity is also called whorl keratopathy or hurricane keratopathy. These deposits are benign, difficult to see, and rarely (if ever) have any visual significance.
Drugs that can cause this pattern: CACTI Mneumonic: chloroquine, amiodarone, chlorpromazine, tamoxifen, indomethacin.
In addition, you can presumably get a similar pattern with amodiaquine, meperidine, and with Fabry’s disease.
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I have Neurotrophic Keratipathy in both eye would like to know other people that have this
Comment by KEISHA JOHNSON — November 15, 2010 @ 5:41 pm
Sorry Dr. Root! Could you answer my question?
How to carry out the differential diagnoses of amiodarone verticillata whorl keratopathy and Cogan’s (map-dot-fingerprint) dystrophy?