Bilateral Serous Retinal Detachment Associated with Alport’s Syndrome

Vol. 214, No. 4, 2000

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Bilateral Serous Retinal Detachment Associated with Alport's Syndrome
Kenjiro Yasuzumi, Soh Futagami, Motohiro Kiyosawa, Manabu Mochizuki

Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Bunkyo, Tokyo, Japan

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Ophthalmologica 2000;214:301-304 (DOI: 10.1159/000027509)

Key Words

Serous retinal detachment
Alport's syndrome
Renal failure
Hypertension
Hemodialysis

Abstract

We report a 14-year-old girl with Alport's syndrome who developed bilateral exudative retinal detachment in the macula. With the development of chronic renal failure, bilateral serous retinal detachment appeared which had the retinal flecks characteristic of Alport's syndrome. The serous detachment was resolved and vision recovered following intensive hemodialysis. As far as we know this is the first case with documentation of the onset and resolution of serous retinal detachment in Alport's syndrome.

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Motohiro Kiyosawa, MD
Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Yushima 1-5-45, Bunkyo, Tokyo, 113-8519 (Japan)
Tel. +81-3-5803-5302, Fax +81-3-3818-7188
E-Mail m.kiyosawa.oph@med.tmd.ac.jp

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