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Postgraduate Medical Journal 2006;82:774; doi:10.1136/pgmj.2006.047001
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Ocular complications in acquired partial lipodystrophy

D Patel , B Page Dimple Patel, Brian Page

Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK

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Dr D Patel
C/O Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Grosvenor Road, Belfast BT12 6BA, UK;dimps88@hotmail.com

Submitted 22 February 2006
Accepted 13 April 2006

Keywords: lipodystrophy; Barraquer–Simons syndrome; drusen; maculopathy

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A 42-year-old woman with a known diagnosis of acquired partial lipodystrophy (PLD) presented to the ophthalmic clinic with blurring and distortion of vision in the left eye. On general inspection, she had classic lipoatrophy in the cephalothoracic distribution. Ophthalmic examination showed right vision 6/5 and left 6/18. She had marked bilateral drusen and retinal pigment epithelial atrophy of the posterior poles (fig 1Go). The left macular also showed a disciform reaction accounting for her visual distortion.


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  		Figure 1  Right fundal photograph showing drusen and retinal pigment epithelial atrophy at the posterior pole.

 
Two months later she developed further reduction of left vision to hand motions owing to a dense vitreous haemorrhage. Spontaneous clearance of the vitreous haemorrhage over time disclosed extensive subretinal fibrosis at the left macula (fig 2Go). The final visual acuity remained hand motions.


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  		Figure 2  Left fundal photograph with extensive subretinal fibrosis.

 
To date, no clinical or laboratory evidence . . . [Full text of this article]




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