Table 1.
Clinical details for affected individuals
Pedigree number | Age (years) | Retinal appearances | Visual acuity right, left | Electrophysiological findings | Sensorineural hearing loss (age detected, years) | Other ocular findings |
I:1 | died aged 72 | Bilateral “macula chorioretinitis” | Poor vision | Yes (40s) | ||
II1 | 67 | Both eyes: well demarcated area of chorioretinal atrophy with pigment hypertrophy centred on the macula | 6/18, 6/24 | Declined testing | Yes (50) | Left exotropia, iris heterochromia |
II3 | 77 | Both eyes: well demarcated area of chorioretinal atrophy with pigment hypertrophy centred on the macula | HM, 6/18 | PERG: normal | Yes (60) | Low myopia |
EOG: mildly subnormal | Right squint surgery as child | |||||
ERG: normal | ||||||
III1 | 42 | Right eye: well demarcated area of chorioretinal atrophy with pigment hypertrophy | Declined testing | Yes (36) | ||
Left eye: multiple yellow drusen-like deposits at the macula | ||||||
III3 | 41 | Both eyes: well demarcated area of chorioretinal atrophy with pigment hypertrophy centred on the macula | 6/9, 6/9 | Yes (20) | Low myopia | |
III5 | died aged 41 | Bilateral macular dystrophy | Not known | Hearing loss | ||
III:6 | 51 | Multiple yellow drusen-like deposits centred on both maculas | 6/9, 6/9 | PERG: mild reduction | Yes (40s) | Low myopia |
EOG: normal | Left squint surgery aged 4 | |||||
ERG: normal | ||||||
III8 | 44 | Multiple yellow drusen-like deposits centred on both maculas | 6/6, 6/6 | Declined testing | No | |
IV3 | 15 | Multiple yellow drusen-like deposits centred on both maculas | 6/6, 6/6 | ERG: normal | Not detected | Low myopia |
EOG: mildly subnormal | Left strabismic amblyopia | |||||
IV4 | 13 | Multiple yellow drusen-like deposits centred on both maculas | 6/9, 6/24 | ERG: normal | Not detected | |
EOG: mildly subnormal |
ERG = electroretinogram; PERG = pattern ERG; EOG = electro-oculography.