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Juan M. Leyva-Castillo, QFB; Humberto Cavazos-Adame, MD; Augusto Rojas-Martínez, DSc, MD; Roberto López-Garza, MD; Martin Cesar Fernandez Espinoza, MD; Rocío Ortiz-López, DSc

Arch Ophthalmol. 2006;124:1500-1501.

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Ligneous conjunctivitis is an autosomal recessive inherited disease caused by mutations in the plasminogen (PLG) gene. Herein, we report a girl affected by this disorder, caused by a homozygous deletion of 14 base pairs in exon 5 of the PLG gene.

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A 2-year-old Mexican girl, product of the fourth pregnancy of second-grade consanguineous parents with no relevant family history, was cared for at the Service of Ophthalmology of the University Hospital, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, because of a refractory bilateral conjunctivitis noticed when she was 2 months of age. The physical examination revealed chronic inflammation of the eyelids and synechia of the tarsal and bulbar conjunctivae with hard pseudomembranes in both eyes; the rest of the examination results were normal. The parents did not show . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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