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Recessive Stargardt disease phenocopying hydroxychloroquine retinopathy.


ABSTRACT: To describe a series of patients with Stargardt disease (STGD1) exhibiting a phenotype usually associated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy on spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).Observational case series from Columbia University Medical Center involving eight patients with genetically-confirmed STGD1. Patients selected for the study presented no history of HCQ use. Horizontal macular SD-OCT scans and accompanying 488-nm autofluorescence (AF) images, color fundus photographs, and full-field electroretinograms were analyzed.All study patients exhibited an abrupt thinning of the parafoveal region or disruption of the outer retinal layers on SD-OCT resembling the transient HCQ retinopathy phenotype. Funduscopy and AF imaging revealed variations of bull's eye maculopathy (BEM). Five patients exhibited local fleck-like deposits around the lesion. Genetic screening confirmed two disease-causing ABCA4 mutations in five patients and one mutation in three patients.A transient SD-OCT phenotype ascribed to patients with HCQ retinopathy is associated with an early subtype of STGD1. This finding may also present with HCQ retinopathy-like BEM lesions on AF imaging and funduscopy. A possible phenotypic overlap is unsurprising, given certain shared mechanistic disease processes between the two conditions. A thorough work-up, including screening of genes that are causal in retinal dystrophies associated with foveal sparing, may prevent misdiagnosis of more ambiguous cases.

SUBMITTER: Noupuu K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4769982 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Recessive Stargardt disease phenocopying hydroxychloroquine retinopathy.

Nõupuu Kalev K   Lee Winston W   Zernant Jana J   Greenstein Vivienne C VC   Tsang Stephen S   Allikmets Rando R  

Graefe's archive for clinical and experimental ophthalmology = Albrecht von Graefes Archiv fur klinische und experimentelle Ophthalmologie 20150828 5


<h4>Purpose</h4>To describe a series of patients with Stargardt disease (STGD1) exhibiting a phenotype usually associated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy on spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT).<h4>Methods</h4>Observational case series from Columbia University Medical Center involving eight patients with genetically-confirmed STGD1. Patients selected for the study presented no history of HCQ use. Horizontal macular SD-OCT scans and accompanying 488-nm autofluorescence  ...[more]

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