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Posterior Amorphous Corneal Dystrophy: New Chromosomal Breakpoints in the Small Leucine-Rich Proteoglycan-Coding
Federico José Basbus1, Federico Andrés Cremona2, Francisco Lucero Saá2
1Department of Ophthalmology, "Hospital de Clínicas," University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; and.
Purpose:
The purpose of this study was to report the clinical features and describe the results obtained by multimodal corneal imaging of a patient with novel chromosomal breakpoints of the 12q21.33 locus.
Methods:
This study was a case report and literature review.
Results:
A 12-year-old girl presented with visual loss whose examination revealed a best-corrected visual acuity of 20/50 in her right eye and 20/35 in her left eye and corneal flattening and gray sheet-like opacities deep in the stroma. Anterior segment optical coherence tomography and ultrabiomicroscopy showed an evenly distributed hyperreflective line in the posterior stroma. Confocal microscopy revealed enlarged keratocytes and the presence of small reflective deposits from the pre-Descemet line to the endothelium. In addition, a 447-kb deletion that included the small leucine-rich proteoglycan-coding region in locus 12q21.33 was found. She was, therefore, diagnosed with PACD.
Conclusions:
PACD is a rare genetic disorder of the cornea characterized by gray sheet-like opacification of the posterior stroma in combination with corneal flattening. Confocal microscopy provides histologic segmentation of each corneal layer and shows the degree to which they are affected. New chromosomal breakpoints of a deletion in the small leucine-rich proteoglycan-coding region are hereby reported. PACD may be a contiguous gene syndrome, and further tests are required to identify the exact position responsible for the phenotypic variation.
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