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<bold>Introduction</bold>: The aim of this article is to present a congenital ophthalmic defect with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye and discuss causative factors with emphasis on limited treatment options of this genetic anomaly, which is responsible for approx. 10% of causes of innate blindness in pediatric patients.
<bold>Materials and methods</bold>: Clinical presentation of a 1-year-old child with diagnosed mesodermal disgenesis of the cornea in both eyes, with concomitant microphthalmos, optic nerve hypoplasia, and persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous in the left eye, treated with epikeratoprosthesis. Aniridia and buphthalmos of the right eye.
<bold>Results</bold>: Following the thorough diagnostic process of microphthalmos, the deletion <italic>PAX6</italic> gene was confirmed in mother of a child. During pregnancy, the mother was suffering from hypothyroidism as well.
<bold>Conclusions</bold>: Continous ophthalmic screening in newborns and infants are of utmost importance in the early detection of congenital malformations of an eyeball. Despite being fairly common in comparison to other innate eyeball anomalies, microphthalmos remains a challenge in successful treatment focused on the improvement of vision. Due to the common co-occurrence of microphthalmos or anophthalmos and craniofacial abnormalities or axial skeleton defects, a crucial role is played by the cooperation between ophthalmologists and other pediatric specialists, including geneticists.
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Introduction: The aim of this article is to present a congenital ophthalmic defect with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye and discuss causative factors with emphasis on limited treatment options of this genetic anomaly, which is responsible for approx. 10% of causes of innate blindness in pediatric patients.
Materials and methods: Clinical presentation of a 1-year-old child with diagnosed mesodermal disgenesis of the cornea in both eyes, with concomitant microphthalmos, optic nerve hypoplasia, and persistent hyperplastic primary vitreous in the left eye, treated with epikeratoprosthesis. Aniridia and buphthalmos of the right eye.
Results: Following the thorough diagnostic process of microphthalmos, the deletion PAX6 gene was confirmed in mother of a child. During pregnancy, the mother was suffering from hypothyroidism as well.
Conclusions: Continous ophthalmic screening in newborns and infants are of utmost importance in the early detection of congenital malformations of an eyeball. Despite being fairly common in comparison to other innate eyeball anomalies, microphthalmos remains a challenge in successful treatment focused on the improvement of vision. Due to the common co-occurrence of microphthalmos or anophthalmos and craniofacial abnormalities or axial skeleton defects, a crucial role is played by the cooperation between ophthalmologists and other pediatric specialists, including geneticists.

Malformations of the anterior segment of the eyeball with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye in a child with the <italic>PAX6</italic> gene mutation – case report

Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin

Scientific Association of Students II Department of Ophthalmology

Pomeranian Journal of Life Sciences

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Malformations of the anterior segment of the eyeball with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye in a child with the  gene mutation – case report

Introduction: The aim of this article is to present a congenital ophthalmic defect with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye and discuss causative factors...

Malformations of the anterior segment of the eyeball with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye in a child with the PAX6 gene mutation – case report

Published Online: Nov 01, 2022

Page range: 54 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.838

Keywords
microphthalmos, anophthalmos, aniridia, deletion of the gene, congenital eyeball malformations

© 2022 Monika Modrzejewska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Malformations of the anterior segment of the eyeball with microphthalmos in the contralateral eye in a child with the PAX6 gene mutation – case report

Published Online: Nov 01, 2022

Page range: 54 - 58

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21164/pomjlifesci.838

Keywordsmicrophthalmos, anophthalmos, aniridia, deletion of the gene, congenital eyeball malformations

© 2022 Monika Modrzejewska et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
microphthalmos, anophthalmos, aniridia, deletion of the gene, congenital eyeball malformations