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Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease

Takayasu’s disease is a chronic granulomatous arteriopathy that affects large vessels and their major branches. Nonspecific symptoms characterize the early phase, whereas findings of arterial occlusion and aneurysmal formation become manifest later. Ocular signs typically refer to retinal vascular i...

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Autores principales: Mastrogiuseppe, Elvia, Pirraglia, Maria Pia, Sampalmieri, Lorenzo, Iannetti, Ludovico, Beccia, Alessandro, Gharbiya, Magda
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Publicado: MDPI 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189502
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081400
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author Mastrogiuseppe, Elvia
Pirraglia, Maria Pia
Sampalmieri, Lorenzo
Iannetti, Ludovico
Beccia, Alessandro
Gharbiya, Magda
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Pirraglia, Maria Pia
Sampalmieri, Lorenzo
Iannetti, Ludovico
Beccia, Alessandro
Gharbiya, Magda
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description Takayasu’s disease is a chronic granulomatous arteriopathy that affects large vessels and their major branches. Nonspecific symptoms characterize the early phase, whereas findings of arterial occlusion and aneurysmal formation become manifest later. Ocular signs typically refer to retinal vascular involvement, as Takayasu arteritis or hypertensive retinopathy. We report a case of a 63-year-old woman suffering from Takayasu arteritis that complained of sudden onset of blurred vision in her left eye due to crystalline lens luxation in the vitreous cavity. The patient’s past medical history was unremarkable for trauma, personal or familiar collagenopathies. Prompt surgical management was performed and the patient reached 0 LogMAR seven days after surgery. Our case illustrates the concomitant occurrence, never reported before, of two rare conditions in the same patient, namely, Takayasu arteritis and spontaneous lens dislocation. Further research and future knowledge are needed to explain whether Takayasu arteritis could obliquely injure zonular or fibrillar structures and whether these features may be possibly related.
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spelling pubmed-101377722023-04-28 Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease Mastrogiuseppe, Elvia Pirraglia, Maria Pia Sampalmieri, Lorenzo Iannetti, Ludovico Beccia, Alessandro Gharbiya, Magda Diagnostics (Basel) Case Report Takayasu’s disease is a chronic granulomatous arteriopathy that affects large vessels and their major branches. Nonspecific symptoms characterize the early phase, whereas findings of arterial occlusion and aneurysmal formation become manifest later. Ocular signs typically refer to retinal vascular involvement, as Takayasu arteritis or hypertensive retinopathy. We report a case of a 63-year-old woman suffering from Takayasu arteritis that complained of sudden onset of blurred vision in her left eye due to crystalline lens luxation in the vitreous cavity. The patient’s past medical history was unremarkable for trauma, personal or familiar collagenopathies. Prompt surgical management was performed and the patient reached 0 LogMAR seven days after surgery. Our case illustrates the concomitant occurrence, never reported before, of two rare conditions in the same patient, namely, Takayasu arteritis and spontaneous lens dislocation. Further research and future knowledge are needed to explain whether Takayasu arteritis could obliquely injure zonular or fibrillar structures and whether these features may be possibly related. MDPI 2023-04-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10137772/ /pubmed/37189502 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081400 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Pirraglia, Maria Pia
Sampalmieri, Lorenzo
Iannetti, Ludovico
Beccia, Alessandro
Gharbiya, Magda
Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title_full Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title_fullStr Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title_full_unstemmed Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title_short Management of Spontaneous Crystalline Lens Luxation in a Patient Diagnosed with Takayasu’s Disease
title_sort management of spontaneous crystalline lens luxation in a patient diagnosed with takayasu’s disease
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10137772/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37189502
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13081400
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