The topiramate, a monosaccharide sulfa, primarily used as an anticonvulsant, was recently introduced in Brazilian trade. Through therapeutic potentialities of topiramate in a considerable scale of illness (migraine, disorders of humor, etc.), thus by the recent presentation, in Brazil, of several news commercial presentation of medication, it is expected that its use be more common each day. This present study reports a severe side effect that comes from the use of the drug in evidence, occurred in a 36 year-old man - the bilateral acute glaucoma, event of report not usual in the world literature. Because of this event, the patient had to be submitted to a bilateral iridotomy.
Topiramate; side effects; bilateral acute glaucoma