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Abstract #23845 Published in IGR 11-2
Biometric and corneal topographic characteristics in patients with Weill-Marchesani syndrome
Razeghinejad MR; Hosseini H; Namazi NJournal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery 2009; 35: 1026-1032
PURPOSE: To determine the biometry of ocular structures and corneal topographic characteristics in patients with Weill-Marchesani syndrome. SETTING: Department of Ophthalmology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. METHODS: Patients with Weill-Marchesani syndrome (syndrome group) and age-matched normal subjects (control group) were evaluated. All had a complete ocular examination including refraction and analysis using Fourier transformation, slitlamp biomicroscopy, pachymetry, keratometry, and ocular biometry. The following A-scan parameters were measured: anterior chamber depth (ACD), lens thickness, axial length (AL), lens-AL factor, and relative lens position (RLP). Corneal topography examinations were performed in the syndrome group only. RESULTS: The syndrome group comprised 7 female patients and the control group, 20 female subjects. The syndrome group had statistically significantly higher myopia and corneal astigmatism than the control group (P<.0001). Oblique astigmatism was common in the syndrome group, showing a strong right-left specificity (right eyes' axes in the 135-degree meridian, left eyes' axes in the 45-degree meridian). The syndrome group had a statistically significantly shorter AL, shallower ACD, thicker lens, higher calculated lens power, and a higher lens-AL factor (P<.0001). However, there was no statistically significant difference in RLP (P = .32). The syndrome group also had statistically significantly thicker corneas and higher keratometry values (P<.0001). CONCLUSION: Characteristic ocular findings in patients with Weill-Marchesani syndrome were a steep, thick cornea with a strong right-left specificity of corneal astigmatism; a thick lens; a short AL; and a shallow ACD.
Department of Ophthalmology, Khalili Hospital, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. razeghinejad@gmail.com
Classification:
9.4.15 Glaucoma in relation to systemic disease (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)
2.2 Cornea (Part of: 2 Anatomical structures in glaucoma)
