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Bietti crystalline dystrophy

Orpha number ORPHA41751
Synonym(s) BCD
Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy
Bietti crystalline retinopathy
Prevalence -
Inheritance
  • Autosomal recessive
Age of onset -
ICD-10
  • H15.5
OMIM
UMLS -
MeSH -
MedDRA -
SNOMED CT -

Summary

Bietti's crystalline dystrophy (BCD) is a rare progressive autosomal recessive tapetoretinal degeneration disease, occurring in the third decade of life, characterized by small sparkling crystalline deposits in the posterior retina and corneal limbus in addition to sclerosis of the choroidal vessels and manifesting as nightblindness, decreased vision, paracentral scotoma, and, in the end stages of the disease, legal blindness.


Last update: February 2012

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Clinical genetics review
  • EN (2012)
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