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Vitreous Cyst with Retinitis Pigmentosa. A New Syndrome?

1952; BMJ; Volume: 36; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bjo.36.9.492

1468-2079

J.W. Wagenaar,

Retinal Development and Disorders

THE clinical picture of a congenital vitreous cyst is highly exceptional.Cassady (1939) collected eighteen cases from the world literature.Unilateral retinitis pigmentosa is an equally infrequent disorder, of which Gordon (1949) was able to gather nineteen pure cases.Chance may play a very particular part, witness the fact that McLean (1933) was able to demonstrate one patient with unilateral retinitis pigmentosa followed by a second with a vitreous cyst.But when both these unusual clinical pictures appear in one patient and a fortiori in the same eye, one is strongly inclined to assume a relationship between these two conditions, either through one disorder being due to the other, or both resulting from the same cause.The following clinical observation may serve as a starting-point for our study. Case ReportA 47-year-old woman consulted me on July 3, 1946, because of difficulties in reading, which could partly he attributed to an incipient presbyopia.The visual acuity in the right eye could be corrected with an erroi-to 5/15 with S --0.5, that in the left to 5/5 with S 0.5.The anterior segment of the right eye showed no changes.In the lower nasal region the vitreous contained a semi-transparent, .:. 4.