TY - JOUR
T1 - Vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa
AU - Yoshida, Noriko
AU - Ikeda, Yasuhiro
AU - Murakami, Yusuke
AU - Nakatake, Shunji
AU - Tachibana, Takashi
AU - Notomi, Shoji
AU - Hisatomi, Toshio
AU - Ishibashi, Tatsuro
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid (to Y.I. and T.I.) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (nos. 24659763 and 24659764).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015, Japanese Ophthalmological Society.
PY - 2015/11/1
Y1 - 2015/11/1
N2 - Purpose: To determine the prevalence of vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 435 consecutive patients diagnosed as having typical RP. Results: Vitreous cysts were diagnosed in 37 eyes of 28 patients with RP (13 males and 15 females; mean age 47.0 ± 19.8 years; range 15–79 years), for an overall prevalence of 6.4 %. The cysts were observed bilaterally in nine of the patients (32.1 %). Among these 28 patients, 11 (39.3 %) were younger than 40 years. In all, 81.8 % of the vitreous cysts were detected around the optic nerve head. Conclusions: We demonstrated that the prevalence of vitreous cysts was 6.4 % in patients with RP. These cysts were considered to be asymptomatic.
AB - Purpose: To determine the prevalence of vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 435 consecutive patients diagnosed as having typical RP. Results: Vitreous cysts were diagnosed in 37 eyes of 28 patients with RP (13 males and 15 females; mean age 47.0 ± 19.8 years; range 15–79 years), for an overall prevalence of 6.4 %. The cysts were observed bilaterally in nine of the patients (32.1 %). Among these 28 patients, 11 (39.3 %) were younger than 40 years. In all, 81.8 % of the vitreous cysts were detected around the optic nerve head. Conclusions: We demonstrated that the prevalence of vitreous cysts was 6.4 % in patients with RP. These cysts were considered to be asymptomatic.
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U2 - 10.1007/s10384-015-0405-1
DO - 10.1007/s10384-015-0405-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 26314744
AN - SCOPUS:84947126209
SN - 0021-5155
VL - 59
SP - 373
EP - 377
JO - Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
JF - Japanese Journal of Ophthalmology
IS - 6
ER -