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IMAGES IN MEDICINE |
Department of Ophthalmology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
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; BarraquerSimons 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 1
). The left macular also showed a disciform reaction accounting for her visual distortion.
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