Corneal hypoaesthesia in asymptomatic familial distichiasis.

Corneal hypoaesthesia in asymptomatic familial distichiasis.

A 3-year-old child, his mother, and his uncle were found to have asymptomatic distichiasis accompanied by corneal hypoaesthesia. Slit-lamp examination of the mother and her brother revealed normal corneas, but bilateral punctate epithelial staining was found in the child. In addition the child suffered from corneal erosion in his left eye due to decreased tear secretion after left occipital cra...

Familial Corneal Dystrophy.

The dystrophy is of the nodular or granular type (Duke-Elder, 1938; Francheschetti, Klein, Form.i, and Babel, 1951; Franceschetti, 1954). The cases would appear to fall into the classification of heredo-familial degenerations under the heading of parenchymatous degenerations-a dominant form of granular degeneration. The youngest patient reported by Francheschetti was 5 years old, but in the lat...

Corneal Imaging Abnormalities in Familial Keratoconus.

Lymphoedema-distichiasis syndrome.

To cite: Marques NS, Miranda A, Barros S, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/ bcr-2015-213651 DESCRIPTION A 29-year-old woman with a history of renal cysts, hypertension and lymphoedema-distichiasis syndrome, was referred to ophthalmology, with bilateral blurred vision, hyperaemia and ocular pain, developed over months. The patient had no positive ...

Folliculectomy: management in segmental trichiasis and distichiasis.

OBJECTIVE To propose a new surgical technique as an alternative method for the correction of segmental trichiasis and distichiasis. MATERIAL AND METHOD An interventional case series reviewed the segmental trichiasis and distichiasis patients who were treated with folliculectomy in the Ophthalmology Department, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital. The data was collected from January 1997 to D...