Multimodal retinal imaging of m.3243A>G associated retinopathy

Francesco Romano; Mariano Cozzi; Giovanni Staurenghi; Anna Paola Salvetti

doi:10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101411

Multimodal retinal imaging of m.3243A>G associated retinopathy

Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep. 2022 Mar 3:26:101411. doi: 10.1016/j.ajoc.2022.101411. eCollection 2022 Jun.

Authors

Francesco Romano¹, Mariano Cozzi¹, Giovanni Staurenghi¹, Anna Paola Salvetti¹

Affiliation

¹ Eye Clinic, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Science, Luigi Sacco Hospital, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Abstract

Retro-mode illumination imaging can provide good visualization of chorio-retinal atrophy and of the retinal pigment epithelial alterations occurring in m.3243A > G associated retinopathy.

Keywords: Chorio-retinal atrophy; Encephalopathy; Lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes syndrome; MELAS; MELAS, mitochondrial myopathy, encephalopathy, lactic acidosis and stroke-like episodes; MTTL1 gene; Mitochondrial myopathy; Mitochondrial retinopathy; Multimodal imaging; NIR-AF, near-infrared autofluorescence; OCT, optical coherence tomography; RPE, retinal pigment epithelium; Retro-mode illumination; m.3243A>G.