Intravitreal inyections: What do patients prefer? Analysis of patient's satisfaction and preferences about where to perform intravitreal injection. Author's reply.

Some patients were adequately managed substituting LC by another drug such as carbamazepine or haloperidol,1 while others who resumed lithium treatment experienced worsening of the papiledema.2 In some cases, as that of the present patient, the psychiatric disease required reinstatement of lithium treatment, which caused the persistence of visual symptoms and signs. Benign intracranial hypertension is a possible although exceptional complication of long-term LC treatment,1–3 which means that the use of this drug must be questioned when said entity is suspected. Some authors recommend regular funduscopic checkups of patients in treatment with lithium.1