A family with optic atrophy and congenital hearing loss

A 37-year-old woman had optic atrophy in both eyes and low-tone hearing disturbance of both ears noted after 34 years of age. Her visual acuity was 0.5 in the right eye and 0.6 in the left. The visual fields of both eyes showed slight progressive concentric narrowing. Hearing loss was gradually prog...

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Published inOphthalmic genetics Vol. 15; no. 2; p. 87
Main Authors Amemiya, T, Honda, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England 1994
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Color Vision Defects - diagnosis
Color Vision Defects - genetics
Female
Fundus Oculi
Hearing Loss, Bilateral - congenital
Hearing Loss, Bilateral - diagnosis
Humans
Optic Atrophy - diagnosis
Optic Atrophy - genetics
Pedigree
Visual Acuity
Visual Fields
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Summary:A 37-year-old woman had optic atrophy in both eyes and low-tone hearing disturbance of both ears noted after 34 years of age. Her visual acuity was 0.5 in the right eye and 0.6 in the left. The visual fields of both eyes showed slight progressive concentric narrowing. Hearing loss was gradually progressive. Her 13-year-old daughter also had optic atrophy in both eyes and low-tone hearing loss in both ears after 11 years of age. Her visual acuity was 0.8 in the right eye and 1.0 in the left. Her visual fields showed slight concentric narrowing. She had enlarged blind spots in both eyes. The mother and her daughter had deuteranomaly. Family history showed that the father, one brother and three sisters of the mother had congenital hearing loss. No other cause for the optic nerve atrophy and hearing disturbance could be found except heredity.
ISSN:1381-6810
DOI:10.3109/13816819409098868