Nasser, Fadi and Kempf, Melanie and Kurtenbach, Anne and Stoehr, Heidi and Weber, Bernhard H. F. and Neuhaus, Christine and Rating, Philipp and Zrenner, Eberhart (2020) Correlating Adaptive Optics Images to Clinical Findings in Juvenile Macular Dystrophy with Hypotrichosis in Siblings with Homozygous CDH3 Pathogenic Variation. OPHTHALMIC RESEARCH, 63 (2). pp. 141-151. ISSN 0030-3747, 1423-0259
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Objective: We report on two German siblings diagnosed with congenital hypotrichosis and juvenile macular dystrophy, an extremely rare syndrome affecting both hair growth and visual functions. Methods: A detailed ophthalmological examination was carried out including fundus examination, visual acuity assessment, visual field determination, color vision testing, and electrophysiology (electroretinography [ERG]). Additionally, fundus photography and autofluorescence imaging (FAF) was performed, along with optical coherence tomography (OCT) and adaptive optics (AO) fundus imaging. Targeted Sanger sequencing and next-generation gene panel sequencing were carried out. Results: Macular dystrophy was evident in the fundus of both patients, as was a central scotoma in the static visual field. The kinetic visual field was normal. The ERG recordings were also normal, but the amplitudes of the multifocal ERG were reduced in the central 4-5 degrees of the retina. The FAF images revealed a large central hypofluorescent area surrounded by a hyperfluorescent ring. The OCT images showed atrophy in the outer layers and tubulations. The AO images depicted a loss of central photoreceptors, as well as severe central atrophy in patient 1. A cone mosaic was observable in the peripheral AO fundus images of both patients. The disrupted cone mosaic on the AO images correlated with the hypofluorescent areas on autofluorescence. DNA testing identified the homozygous, likely pathogenic variant c.1508G>A/p.(Arg503His) (chr16:68719191) in the CDH3 gene. Conclusions: The two siblings revealed hypotrichosis and macular dystrophy in both eyes. The identification of a homozygous CDH3 mutation in each patient confirms the syndromic entity of hypotrichosis with juvenile macular degeneration.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | P-CADHERIN EXPRESSION; CELL-ADHESION; MUTATION; PATIENT; CDH3; Macular dystrophy; Cone-rod degeneration; Hypotrichosis; Adaptive optics |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Humangenetik |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2021 08:28 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Apr 2021 08:28 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/45484 |
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