Iris atrophy, posterior synechiae, and persistent photophobia after photo-epilation of the upper eyebrow by Piotr Fryczkowski, Magdalena Dadan

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Descemet Stripping Endothelial Keratoplasty in a Patient with Keratoglobus and Chronic Hydrops Secondary to a Spontaneous Descemet Membrane Tear by Anton M. Kolomeyer, David S. Chu

“…After a 5.5-month loss to follow-up, the patient presented with discomfort, photophobia, decreasing vision, and tearing in the right eye. …”
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Unusual Presentation of Phacolytic Glaucoma: Simulating Microbial Keratitis by Srikant Kumar Sahu, Siddharth Keswarwani, Ruchi Mittal

“…The 73-year-old lady presented with severe photophobia, pain, and redness in the left eye for two months despite being on antibiotics and antifungals. …”
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Efficacy, safety, and tolerability of lifitegrast 5% eye drops: A randomized, double-blind, active-controlled trial in Indian patients with dry eye disease by Namrata Sharma, Sayan Basu, Rohit Shetty, Pramod Kumar, Anindita Mondal, P Seshu Babu, Richa Srivastava, Ranjana A Pande, Shubashree Karat, Hemaxi P Desai, S Manjula, M Krishna Kumar

“…Significantly more favorable values for EDS (except photophobia), ODS, OSDI, TFBUT, STT score, CFS score, and conjunctival redness score were achieved at week 12 with lifitegrast 5% compared to CMC 0.5%.…”
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Bandage Contact Lens Application Reduces Fibrotic Wound Healing of Flap Margins after FS-LASIK: A Prospective Randomized Clinical Trial by Li-Quan Zhao, Liang-Mao Li, Jun Liu, Peng Li

“…Postoperative pain and photophobia were milder in the BCL group than in the control group (P=0.041 and P=0.003, respectively), but patients felt more foreign-body sensation in the eye with a BCL than in the control eye (P=0.001). …”
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Isolated Bilateral Congenital Iris Sphincter Agenesis by Aparna Rao

“…A 24-year-old laborer presented to us for a routine checkup with complaint of photophobia and inability to work under sunlight. Examination revealed bilateral absence of sphincter and 6.5 mm pupil in both eyes in the undilated state. …”
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The use of triptans as an effective form of migraine treatment – review by Agata Borkowska, Anna Kiełb, Anna Mich, Anna Kaźmierczak, Patrycja Sornek, Wiktoria Izdebska, Igor Pawlak, Radosław Ciesielski, Jakub Stanek, Klaudia Perkowska

“…These pharmaceuticals markedly alleviate pain and symptoms like nausea, photophobia, and phonophobia, providing substantial pain relief. …”
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Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs for Retinal Disease by Scott D. Schoenberger, Stephen J. Kim

“…Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used extensively in ophthalmology for pain and photophobia after photorefractive surgery and to reduce miosis, inflammation, and cystoid macular edema following cataract surgery. …”
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Chronic, Stromal Foreign Body of Presumed Human Origin, following Corneal Abrasion by Alexander K. Soon, Rookaya Mather

“…A 30-year-old woman presented with left eye pain and photophobia for over eight weeks. A hair was found to be embedded obliquely within the corneal stroma with overlying reepithelialization. …”
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Dead Collections by Mary Snyder Broussard

“…While he experiences many symptoms including cold skin and reliance on weekly blood transfusions, it is his life-threatening photophobia (aversion to sunlight) that becomes a serious impairment to commuting to and from work. …”
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Alström’s Syndrome, Leber’s Hereditary Optic Neuropathy, or Retinitis Pigmentosa? A Case of Misdiagnosis by Palaiologos Alexopoulos, Chrysanthos Symeonidis, Tryfon Rotsos

“…The ophthalmic manifestation is early onset cone-rod dystrophy that starts as progressive vision loss, photophobia, and nystagmus in the first months of life. …”
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Effectiveness of low-dose topical atropine in preventing the progression of myopia – A prospective interventional cohort study in pediatric patients by Tara Susan Mohan, Liji Menon, Mary Shimy, Binu Balan, Latha Panicker

“…There is no significant pupillary dilatation with the use of 0.01% atropine and side effects like photophobia were not reported. Conclusion: We concluded that atropine sulfate 0.01% is safe and effective in slowing down the progression of myopia.…”
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Purpura Fulminans Secondary to Streptococcus pneumoniae Meningitis by Erick F. Alvarez, Karen E. Olarte, Mayur S. Ramesh

“…Our case describes a 37-year-old previously healthy man who presented with 3 days of generalized malaise, headache, vomiting, photophobia, and an ecchymotic skin rash. Initial laboratory workup revealed DIC without obvious infectious trigger including unremarkable cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) biochemical analysis. …”
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Adie pupil. Literature review by A. Judickaitė, A. Zizas, A. Varoniukaitė, L. Šemeklis, B. Glebauskienė

“…The symptoms are a unilateral or bilateral dilated pupil, photophobia, and blurred vision. The diagnosis is based on patients’ symptoms, clinical examination findings, and a dilute pilocarpine test can also be performed. …”
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Aseptic Meningitis as an Immune-Related Adverse Event after Pembrolizumab by Gian Lima, Adriana Kahn, Shashank Sama, Jacqueline Savage

“…A 55-year-old male with a history of metastatic lung adenocarcinoma previously treated with pembrolizumab presented with persistent severe headaches and photophobia. Subsequent workup with cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed elevated opening pressure, increased nucleated cells with 30% lymphocytes, elevated protein levels, and normal glucose levels. …”
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Bilateral Iris Atrophy after the Femtosecond Assisted Laser In Situ Keratomileusis Surgery by Kenan Olcay, Akin Cakir, Sercan Koray Sagdic, Eyup Duzgun, Yildiray Yildirim

“…A 28-year-old female presented with photophobia and glare to our eye service. She stated in her medical history that she had undergone femtosecond assisted LASIK surgery in both eyes 15 months ago and her symptoms started just after this surgery. …”
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A Rare Occurrence of Isolated Brain Metastases from Gastric Cancer by Manish M. Karamchandani, Tej Ganti, Sunny Jaiswal, Julian K. Wu, Muhammad Wasif Saif

“…One year after chemotherapy and surgical resection of his gastric cancer, he presented with headaches, nausea, dizziness, and photophobia. Further evaluation of these symptoms led to the discovery of three metastatic brain lesions without evidence of extracranial metastases. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Celecoxib Oral Solution for the Acute Treatment of Migraine by Nazir Noor, Courtney LaChute, Mathew Root, Jasmine Rogers, Madeleine Richard, Giustino Varrassi, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Nazih Khater, Alan D. Kaye

“…A migraine is a clinical diagnosis with a presentation of one or more severe unilateral or bilateral headache(s) often preceded by an aura and typically accompanied by nausea, vomiting, photophobia, and/or phonophobia. This neurological disease is often debilitating and greatly affects the quality of life of those it inflicts. …”
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Cerebral vein thrombosis as the initial presentation of acute promyelocytic leukemia (APML) by Fizza Zulfiqar, Noora Khadoori, Lisa Deptula, Geetha Krishnamoorthy

“…She few days later presented to our emergency department (ED) with worsening headache and photophobia. Workup revealed normal anti-Xa activity despite weight-based enoxaparin, CVT, and a new diagnosis of acute promyelocytic leukemia. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of Zavegepant as Abortive Treatment for Migraine by Nazir Noor, Alexis Angelette, Abby Lawson, Anjana Patel, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Cyrus Yazdi, Alan D. Kaye

“…Migraine headache is a widespread and complex neurobiological disorder that is characterized by unilateral headaches that are often accompanied by photophobia and phonophobia. Migraine is one of the leading chief complaints in the emergency department with negative impacts on quality of life and activities of daily living. …”
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