Author(s)

Mehrdad Mohammadpour¹, Nazanin Ebrahimiadib¹, Seyed Ali Tabatabaei¹, Mohammad Soleimani^1*, Shima Dehghani¹, Fatemeh Abdi¹, Ghasem Saeedi Anari¹, Amir Hasan Matini², Mahyar Noorbakhsh², Zahra Ghomi¹

¹Eye Research Center, Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
²Shahid Beheshti Hospital, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran.

Pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE) is a hereditary disorder that affects primarily the elastic tissues of skin, eyes and blood vessels. Its estimated prevalence is thought to be 1:25,000 - 100,000. PXE patients also carry an increased risk for cardiovascular and gastrointestinal diseases. Early diagnosis can play a crucial role in preventing early loss of vision and systemic complications in these patients however despite having characteristic clinical features; it is still to a large extent being under-diagnosed. Here we present two cases of PXE with reduced vision.

Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum (PXE), Angioid Streaks, Drusen

Mohammadpour, M. , Ebrahimiadib, N. , Tabatabaei, S. , Soleimani, M. , Dehghani, S. , Abdi, F. , Anari, G. , Matini, A. , Noorbakhsh, M. and Ghomi, Z. (2017) Angioid Streaks in Psuedoxanthoma Elasticum. Open Journal of Ophthalmology, 7, 57-63. doi: 10.4236/ojoph.2017.71009.