Phenotype #0000301969

Individual ID 00409853
Associated disease -
Phenotype details nyctalopia with difficulty navigating in dimly lit environments since teenage years; in early twenties, central vision loss followed by progressive peripheral field loss and light-sensitivity; medical history: nonspecific dysautonomia, with episodes of lightheadedness, tachycardia, and diaphoresis, for which evaluations with cardiology and neurology were unrevealing of an underlying etiology; older brother diagnosed with rod-cone dystrophy 3y; deceased paternal grandfather night-blind; best-corrected visual acuity: 20/30 both eyes with moderate myopic astigmatism; normal color vision tested using the Ishihara plates; anterior segment: normal; ophthalmoscopy: macular pigment mottling, mild peripapillary atrophy and hypopigmentation vessels that appeared to be of normal caliber, peripheral retina unremarkable; fundus autofluorescence: bull's eye-like ring of hyper-autofluorescence and patchy granular hypoautofluorescence of the mid-periphery; optical coherence tomography of the fovea: intraretinal cystoid chans with mild epiretinal membranes in both eyes, outer retinal loss of the ellipsoid zone and external limiting membrane with preserved subfoveal islands; Goldmann visual field testing: less than 10 degrees of central field using a V4e target, and an inferior arcuate island of peripheral field remaining in both eyes; electroretinogram: reduction in both scotopic and photopic responses
Diagnosis/Initial -
Inheritance Familial, autosomal recessive
Diagnosis/Definite retinitis pigmentosa
Age/Examination 32y (32 years)
Age/Diagnosis -
Age/Onset -
Phenotype/Onset night blindness
Protein -
Owner name LOVD
Database submission license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 InternationalCreative Commons License
Created by Anna Tracewska
Date created 2022-05-12 12:47:30 +02:00 (CEST)
Date last edited N/A

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