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ArticleJAMA ophthalmology2017

Acute Zonal Cone Photoreceptor Outer Segment Loss.

Tomas S Aleman, Harpal S Sandhu, Leona W Serrano, Anastasia Traband, Marisa K Lau, Grazyna Adamus, Robert A Avery

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Article in JAMA ophthalmology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Tomas S AlemanScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2Division of Ophthalmology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania3Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Harpal S SandhuScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Leona W SerranoScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Anastasia TrabandScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Marisa K LauScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Grazyna AdamusOcular Immunology Laboratory, Casey Eye Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland.
Robert A AveryScheie Eye Institute at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia2Division of Ophthalmology, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania3Department of Ophthalmology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
University of Pennsylvania · USPenn Presbyterian Medical Center · USChildren's Hospital of Philadelphia · USOregon Health & Science University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Importance: The diagnostic path presented narrows down the cause of acute vision loss to the cone photoreceptor outer segment and will refocus the search for the cause of similar currently idiopathic conditions. Objective: To describe the structural and functional associations found in a patient with acute zonal occult photoreceptor loss. Design, Setting, and Participants: A case report of an adolescent boy with acute visual field loss despite a normal fundus examination performed at a university teaching hospital. Main Outcomes and Measures: Results of a complete ophthalmic examination, full-field flash electroretinography (ERG) and multifocal ERG, light-adapted achromatic and 2-color dark-adapted perimetry, and microperimetry. Imaging was performed with spectral-domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT), near-infrared (NIR) and short-wavelength (SW) fundus autofluorescence (FAF), and NIR reflectance (REF). Results: The patient was evaluated within a week of the onset of a scotoma in the nasal field of his left eye. Visual acuity was 20/20 OU, and color vision was normal in both eyes. Results of the fundus examination and of SW-FAF and NIR-FAF imaging were normal in both eyes, whereas NIR-REF imaging showed a region of hyporeflectance temporal to the fovea that corresponded with a dense relative scotoma noted on light-adapted static perimetry in the left eye. Loss in the photoreceptor outer segment detected by SD-OCT co-localized with an area of dense cone dysfunction detected on light-adapted perimetry and multifocal ERG but with near-normal rod-mediated vision according to results of 2-color dark-adapted perimetry. Full-field flash ERG findings were normal in both eyes. The outer nuclear layer and inner retinal thicknesses were normal. Conclusions and Relevance: Localized, isolated cone dysfunction may represent the earliest photoreceptor abnormality or a distinct entity within the acute zonal occult outer retinopathy complex. Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy should be considered in patients with acute vision loss and abnormalities on NIR-REF imaging, especially if multimodal imaging supports an intact retinal pigment epithelium and inner retina but an abnormal photoreceptor outer segment.

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Visual AcuityVisual FieldsAdolescentColor VisionElectroretinographyFluorescein AngiographyFundus OculiHumansMaleRetinal Cone Photoreceptor CellsScotomaTomography, Optical CoherenceWhite Dot Syndromes

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PMCPMC5847106
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