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JAPANESE JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY
Volume 64, Issue 5, Pages 485-496Publisher
SPRINGER JAPAN KK
DOI: 10.1007/s10384-020-00752-1
Keywords
Autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa; RP1; Adaptive optics images; Fundus autofluorescence
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI [19K09928]
- Takayanagi Retina Research Award
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [19K09928] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Purpose To report the clinical course and high resolution images of autosomal recessive retinitis pigmentosa (RP) associated with a variant of theRP1gene (c.4052_4053ins328/p.Tyr1352Alafs*9; m1), a high frequency founder variant in Japanese RP patients. Study design Retrospective case series. Methods Nine patients from 5 unrelated Japanese families were studied. Five patients had the m1 variant homozygously, and 4 patients had the m1 variant compound heterozygously with another frameshift variant (c.4196delG/p.Cys1399Leufs*5). Ophthalmic examinations including adaptive optics (AO) fundus imaging were performed periodically. Results The fundus photographs, fundus autofluorescence (FAF) images, and optical coherence tomographic (OCT) images indicated severe retinal degeneration in all the patients involving the macula even at a young age (20 s). The areas of surviving photoreceptors in the central macula were seen as hyper-autofluorescent regions in the FAF images and preserved outer retinal structure in the OCT images; they were identifiable in the AO fundus images in 8 eyes. The borders of the surviving photoreceptor areas were surrounded by hyporeflective clumps, presumably containing melanin, and the size of these areas decreased progressively during the 4-year follow-up period. The disappearance of the surviving photoreceptor areas was associated with complete blindness. Conclusion Patients with RP associated with the m1 variant have a progressive and severe retinal degeneration that begins at an early age. Monitoring the surviving photoreceptor areas by AO fundus imaging can provide a more precise pathological record of retinal degeneration.
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