Macular choroidal occlusion in dysplasminogenemia.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
The authors describe a family with dysplasminogenemia. This diagnosis was based on a lowered ratio of functional plasminogen activity to immunologic plasminogen antigen level, associated with fundus abnormalities. The proband is a 31-year-old woman with Graves disease who had choroidal occlusive lesions of the macula in both eyes. The results of the laboratory examination indicated that the patient was a homozygote for dysplasminogenemia. Similar examinations of the patient's parents and siblings showed their plasminogen levels to be 50% below normal. The thrombotic tendency in this disorder appeared to be responsible for the pathogenesis of the macular choroidal occlusion.
Medical subject headings
- Choroid
- Macula Lutea
- Plasminogen