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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2025

Xuecong Zhou, Yawen Zhao, Yingsi Li, Yujing Yuan, Xiaoming Yan, Wei Zhang, Yuan Wu

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

Xuecong Zhou *Department of Ophthalmology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yawen Zhao *Department of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yingsi LiDepartment of Ophthalmology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yujing YuanDepartment of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Xiaoming YanDepartment of Ophthalmology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Wei ZhangDepartment of Neurology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.
Yuan WuDepartment of Ophthalmology, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, Beijing, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Purpose: This study was aimed to investigate the microstructure characteristics of cornea verticillata and limbus deposits in patients with Fabry disease (FD) using Methods: A total of 60 eyes from 30 patients diagnosed with FD were examined and compared with 36 eyes from 18 healthy controls in this prospective, cross-sectional, controlled, single-center study. The initial assessment of cornea verticillata (CV) was conducted using slit-lamp microscopy. Subsequently, IVCM was performed to assess deposits in the corneal and limbal epithelium. We compared the differences between the sexes (heterozygous and hemizygous) and phenotypes (classical and non-classical). Results: The epithelial deposit detection rate with IVCM was statistically higher (52/60, 86.67%) compared to the biomicroscopic evaluation of CV using a silt lamp (46/60, 76.67%) ( Conclusion: Compared with slit-lamp microscopy, IVCM provides a more effective tool for examining the epithelial deposits in patients with FD. Patients with FD demonstrated a profound bilateral increase in corneal epithelial deposits and limbal hyperreflective cells compared to controls, with more prominent pathological changes observed in classical phenotype individuals. The high prevalence of epithelial deposits observed through IVCM in the cardiac variant highlights the essential ability of IVCM as an effective diagnostic tool.

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cornea verticillataepithelial depositsFabry diseasein vivo confocal microscopylimbus

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