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SUBMITTER: Tsui I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754060 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Tsui Irena I Fuchs Brian S BS Chou Chai Lin CL Chang Stanley S Tsang Stephen H SH
Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology 20071122 1
Pseudoxanthoma elasticum patients with angioid streaks are well-known to have acute vision loss due to choroidal bleeding. However, chronic vision loss due to macular atrophy is less well characterized. We describe a patient with sub-acute vision loss in one eye due to loss of macular retinal pigment epithelium function. Autofluorescence and pattern electroretinogram were useful adjuncts to help diagnose the source of her vision loss. ...[more]