Rod Cone dystrophy

• By Niloofar Piri, MD
  SSM Health Group, St Louis University
  Co-author(s): William J Anderson, MD, Saint Louis university; Sean Kelso, Saint Louis University
• Uploaded on Nov 29, 2022.
• Last modified by Joshua Friedman on Jul 13, 2023.

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Condition/keywords

hereditary retinal degeneration, hereditary retinal dystrophy, rod cone dystrophy

Photographer

Sean Kelso, Saint Louis University

Imaging device

Fundus camera

Description

Fundus autofluorescence of the left eye in a 58 yo male with rod cone dystrophy. He presented with night blindness and peripheral vision loss since youth and recent decrease in central vision for the past 10 years. Notice multiple coin shaped hypoautofluorescent pacthes within central 20 degrees which are coalescing centrally. (fundus photo uploaded separately) He has one pathogenic variants of both CEP290 and PRPH2 genes.

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