RECURRENCE OF VITELLIFORM LESIONS ASSOCIATED WITH TEMPORARY VISION LOSS IN BEST VITELLIFORM MACULAR DYSTROPHY. 2016

Yu Tung Wang, and Mongkol Tadarati, and Hendrik P Scholl, and Neil M Bressler
*Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland; and †Department of Ophthalmology, Rajavithi Hospital, College of Medicine, Rangsit University, Bangkok, Thailand.

OBJECTIVE To describe visual acuity changes associated with several cycles of accumulation, disappearance, and reaccumulation of vitelliform material in Best disease, with fundus photographs, fluorescein angiograms, and optical coherence tomography images documenting these stages. METHODS Case report with 70 months of follow-up using fundus photography, fluorescein angiography, and optical coherence tomography to image the retina. A non-Hispanic white 33-year-old man with Best disease (positive for a mutation in the BEST1 gene, namely p.Tyr167Cys:c.500A>G). RESULTS The patient had a history of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) followed by scarring of the macula with sustained vision loss of ∼20/250 in the left eye when he was in his twenties. He subsequently presented in his thirties with acute vision loss in the right eye 3 times during a 70-month follow-up period. Each episode of vision loss in the right eye was preceded by several months of reaccumulation of vitelliform material in the macula apparent on fundus photographs, fluorescein angiograms, and optical coherence tomography, but no evidence of CNV on presentation. Each of the three episodes of vision loss in the right eye was followed by spontaneous gradual improvement in visual acuity over the next several months, correlating with decreasing amounts of the vitelliform material on clinical examination and fundus photographs. After the third documented recovery of visual acuity, at a time of stable vision, the patient developed CNV in the right eye, treated with intravitreal ranibizumab. CONCLUSIONS This case demonstrates that vitelliform material can reaccumulate and resorb several times in Best disease, with temporary visual acuity decline after each episode of vitelliform material accumulation. There is a need for continued vigilance for the development of CNV in patients presenting with acute vision loss, although this patient developed CNV at a time of stable vision.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D014786 Vision Disorders Visual impairments limiting one or more of the basic functions of the eye: visual acuity, dark adaptation, color vision, or peripheral vision. These may result from EYE DISEASES; OPTIC NERVE DISEASES; VISUAL PATHWAY diseases; OCCIPITAL LOBE diseases; OCULAR MOTILITY DISORDERS; and other conditions (From Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p132). Hemeralopia,Macropsia,Micropsia,Day Blindness,Metamorphopsia,Vision Disability,Visual Disorders,Visual Impairment,Blindness, Day,Disabilities, Vision,Disability, Vision,Disorder, Visual,Disorders, Visual,Hemeralopias,Impairment, Visual,Impairments, Visual,Macropsias,Metamorphopsias,Micropsias,Vision Disabilities,Vision Disorder,Visual Disorder,Visual Impairments
D014792 Visual Acuity Clarity or sharpness of OCULAR VISION or the ability of the eye to see fine details. Visual acuity depends on the functions of RETINA, neuronal transmission, and the interpretative ability of the brain. Normal visual acuity is expressed as 20/20 indicating that one can see at 20 feet what should normally be seen at that distance. Visual acuity can also be influenced by brightness, color, and contrast. Acuities, Visual,Acuity, Visual,Visual Acuities
D057826 Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy Autosomal dominant hereditary maculopathy with childhood-onset accumulation of LIPOFUSION in RETINAL PIGMENT EPITHELIUM. Affected individuals develop progressive central acuity loss, and distorted vision (METAMORPHOPSIA). It is associated with mutations in bestrophin, a chloride channel. Adult-Onset Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy,Best Disease,Best Macular Dystrophy,Best Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy,Best's Disease,Foveomacular Dystrophy, Adult-Onset,Foveomacular Dystrophy, Adult-Onset, With Choroidal Neovascularization,Juvenile-Onset Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy,Macular Degeneration, Polymorphic Vitelline,Macular Dystrophy, Vitelliform,Macular Dystrophy, Vitelliform, Adult-Onset,Vitelliform Dystrophy,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy Type 2,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Adult-Onset,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Early-Onset,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Juvenile-Onset,Adult Onset Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy,Adult-Onset Foveomacular Dystrophies,Adult-Onset Foveomacular Dystrophy,Disease, Best,Disease, Best's,Dystrophies, Adult-Onset Foveomacular,Dystrophies, Vitelliform Macular,Dystrophy, Adult-Onset Foveomacular,Dystrophy, Best Macular,Dystrophy, Vitelliform Macular,Foveomacular Dystrophies, Adult-Onset,Foveomacular Dystrophy, Adult Onset,Juvenile Onset Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy,Macular Dystrophies, Vitelliform,Macular Dystrophy, Best,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophies,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Adult Onset,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Early Onset,Vitelliform Macular Dystrophy, Juvenile Onset
D020256 Choroidal Neovascularization A pathological process consisting of the formation of new blood vessels in the CHOROID. Neovascularization, Choroidal,Choroid Neovascularization,Neovascularization, Choroid,Choroid Neovascularizations,Choroidal Neovascularizations

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