Relationship of Color Blindness to Alcoholic Liver Damage

Ugarte, G; Cruz-Coke, R; Rivera, Lucia; Altschiller, H; Mardones, J

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“…Different alterations of the visual functions are described in chronic alcohol users such as alcohol tobacco amblyopia (Grzybowski, Zulsdorff, Wilhelm, & Tonagel, 2015;Prakash et al, 2011) or acquired color vision impairment. There is no agreement about the the axis of color defects due to alcohol misuse since changes in the red-green and the blue-yellow axis are described in literature (Baron, 1972;Burdick & Chebib, 1982;de Carvalho, Danda, Dantas, Arraes, & Cavalcanti, 2006;Ebran et al, 1988;Francq, Pierart, & Verriest, 1979;Gerhard, 1981;Kapitany et al, 1993;Krumsiek, Kruger, Wurster, & Patzold, 1985;Mergler, Blain, Lemaire, & Lalande, 1988;Primo, 1988;Sakuma, 1973;Shimozono, Townsend, Ilsen, & Bright, 1998;Smith, 1972;Swinson, 1972;Ugarte, Cruz-Coke, Rivera, Altschiller, & Mardones, 1970).…”

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No blue-yellow color vision impairment after acute ethanol ingestion

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Weinmann

Pfäffli

2019

Alcohol

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No blue-yellow color vision impairment after acute ethanol ingestion

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Weinmann

Pfäffli

2019

Alcohol

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“…Acquired defects in colour vision have been reported in various conditions like diabetes (Lakowski et al, 1972), alcoholism (Thuline, 1967;Ugarte et al, 1970;Cruz-Coke, 1972), vitamin A deficiency (Bronte-Stewart & Foulds, 1972), Addisonian pernicious anaemia (Chisholm, 1972), hysteria (Pickford, 1949), cranial trauma (Hansen, 1972) and cerebral neoplasms (Green & Lessell, 1977).…”

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Dyschromatopsia in heroin addicts

Dias

1990

British Journal of Addiction

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The Farnsworth-Munsell 100-hue test was employed to determine whether there was any defect of colour vision in 29 confirmed male heroin addicts who had been successfully detoxified. Forty age-matched males served as controls. A typical normal error score on the FM test is about 40 and an error score of over 100 indicates poor colour discrimination; 86.2% of the eyes of the control group had an error score below 100 while only 17.2% of the eyes of heroin addicts had an error score below 100. The colour confusion among the heroin addicts was in the blue-purple (475-495 mu) range. These results indicate that colour vision defects are more common in heroin addicts.

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“…The deficiency put forward has been described either as an acquired blueyellow defectiveness of colour vision [CruzCoke, 1964;Thuline, 1967;Varela et al, 1969;Sassoon et al, 1970;Ugarte et al, 1970], either as an acquired red-green de fectiveness of colour vision [Saraux et al, 1966;Sakuma, 1971Sakuma, , 1973, or as a dyschromatopsia without prominent axis [Smith and Lay den, 1971;Rothstein et al, 1973].…”

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“…Unless the bad performance at some colour vision tests, espescially if they are long and diffi cult, were simply due to physical damages (hands quivering) or psychological problems (lack of attention) caused by alcoholism [Fialkow et al, 1966;Smith and Layden, 1971]; an impairment of the visual search speed was also described [Bertera and Par sons, 1978]. Liver interference has been re jected for there is a lack of correlation be tween the responses at the 100 hue test and the results of hepatic tests [Ugarte et al, 1970]; on the other hand, the hypothesis of a genetic linkage does not seem to be consis tent with the colour vision improvement generally occurring during désintoxication.…”

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Results of Colour Vision Tests in Alcoholic and in Mentally Disordered Subjects

Verriest¹,

Francq²,

Piérart³

1980

Ophthalmologica

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The responses at the Ishihara test, the Nagel anomaloscope, the standard Panel D–15 and the 100 hue test (with correction of the age effect) were recorded in 38 alcoholics in deprivation period (successively subdivided according to age, to abstinence duration and to liver condition) and in 32 subjects suffering from mental diseases (successively subdivided according to ethylic past, to age, to duration of the stay in the hospital and to activity). It is shown that alcoholism causes a diminution of the performance at the used colour vision tests and especially at the 100 hue test. The defect can be ascribed to psychical factors (chiefly in the cases of mental disease and in the younger people), but also to an acquired blue-yellow defectiveness of colour vision with a shift of the Rayleigh match to red (such a defectiveness can also be due to a liver damage and to some intoxications) and even to a Type II acquired red-green defectiveness of colour vision (possibly by tobacco or disulfiram intoxication). The defect due to alcohol itself soon disappears during desintoxication. The authors draw some practical conclusions.

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Relationship of Color Blindness to Alcoholic Liver Damage

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No blue-yellow color vision impairment after acute ethanol ingestion

No blue-yellow color vision impairment after acute ethanol ingestion

Dyschromatopsia in heroin addicts

Results of Colour Vision Tests in Alcoholic and in Mentally Disordered Subjects

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