Ocular Involvement in Patients with Infantile Nephropathic Cystinosis

Autor: Sema Üzüm, Ayşe Bozkurt Oflaz, Sadagat Guluzade, Emine Tınkır Kayıtmazbatır, Banu Bozkurt
Jazyk: English<br />Turkish
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Türk Oftalmoloji Dergisi, Vol 54, Iss 4, Pp 235-239 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1300-0659
2147-2661
DOI: 10.4274/tjo.galenos.2024.89957
Popis: Cystinosis is a rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease associated with high mortality and morbidity rates. The most distinctive ocular manifestations of cystinosis are photophobia, tearing, and blurred vision. Herein, we assessed the ocular involvement of four patients from two families diagnosed with infantile nephropathic cystinosis using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and in vivo confocal microscopy (IVCM). Anterior segment OCT demonstrated multiple hyperreflective punctate deposits, and IVCM revealed needle-shaped bright crystal deposits in the corneal stroma in all patients. Three patients also had crystal deposits in the epithelium, where epithelial cell disruption was observed. Crystal deposits around the subepithelial nerve plexus were noted in some sections. In one patient, round and needle-shaped bright deposits along with inflammatory cells were observed in the limbal region of the conjunctiva. Infrared fundus images of two female siblings revealed hyperreflective crystal-like deposits around the optic disc, macula, and peripheral retina, and enhanced depth imaging OCT showed accumulation of crystals in all layers of the retina.
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