KROK 1 2012 – Question 166 · KROK (Medicine) · Pharmacology
A patient suffers from pulmonary tuberculosis. During treatment neuritis of visual nerve arose. What drug has caused this by-effect?
- A. Isoniazid
- B. Ethambutol
- C. Kanamycin
- D. Streptomycin
- E. Rifampicin
Hint
Sort the antituberculosis drugs by their characteristic toxicity (liver, ear and kidney, or nervous tissue) and think how a drug might damage a nerve.
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