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Vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa

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Abstract

Purpose

To determine the prevalence of vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa (RP).

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 435 consecutive patients diagnosed as having typical RP.

Results

Vitreous cysts were diagnosed in 37 eyes of 28 patients with RP (13 males and 15 females; mean age 47.0 ± 19.8 years; range 15–79 years), for an overall prevalence of 6.4 %. The cysts were observed bilaterally in nine of the patients (32.1 %). Among these 28 patients, 11 (39.3 %) were younger than 40 years. In all, 81.8 % of the vitreous cysts were detected around the optic nerve head.

Conclusions

We demonstrated that the prevalence of vitreous cysts was 6.4 % in patients with RP. These cysts were considered to be asymptomatic.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported in part by Grants-in-Aid (to Y.I. and T.I.) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (nos. 24659763 and 24659764).

Conflicts of interest

N. Yoshida, None; Y. Ikeda, None; Y. Murakami, None; S. Nakatake, None; T. Tachibana, None; S. Notomi, None; T. Hisatomi, None; T. Ishibashi, None.

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  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, 3-1-1 Maidashi, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan

    Noriko Yoshida, Yasuhiro Ikeda, Yusuke Murakami, Shunji Nakatake, Takashi Tachibana, Shoji Notomi, Toshio Hisatomi & Tatsuro Ishibashi

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Yoshida, N., Ikeda, Y., Murakami, Y. et al. Vitreous cysts in patients with retinitis pigmentosa. Jpn J Ophthalmol 59, 373–377 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10384-015-0405-1

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