Enhanced S-cone syndrome with subfoveal neovascularization

Am J Ophthalmol. 2002 Apr;133(4):575-7. doi: 10.1016/s0002-9394(01)01428-3.

Abstract

Purpose: To report a case of enhanced S-cone syndrome associated with subfoveal neovascularization.

Design: Observational case report.

Methods: A 23-year-old man, who was first examined at age 9 years, was found to have enhanced S-cone syndrome by clinical, electrophysiological, and molecular genetic examinations.

Results: At 9 years of age, a subfoveal neovascularization was present in his right eye and corrected visual acuity was RE: 0.15 and LE: 1.0. After he was 20 years old, cystoid changes in the macula of the left eye appeared and visual acuity, in the left eye, decreased from 1.0 to 0.02.

Conclusion: The clinical course of enhanced S-cone syndrome is progressive, and we suggest that the subretinal neovascularization is a phenotypic variation of enhanced S-cone syndrome.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • DNA Mutational Analysis
  • Fluorescein Angiography
  • Fovea Centralis / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Macular Edema / genetics
  • Male
  • Night Blindness / diagnosis
  • Night Blindness / genetics*
  • Orphan Nuclear Receptors
  • Point Mutation
  • Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / genetics
  • Retinal Cone Photoreceptor Cells / pathology*
  • Retinal Neovascularization / diagnosis
  • Retinal Neovascularization / genetics*
  • Syndrome
  • Transcription Factors / genetics
  • Visual Acuity

Substances

  • NR2E3 protein, human
  • Orphan Nuclear Receptors
  • Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
  • Transcription Factors