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Neovascular Glaucoma From Advanced Coats Disease as the Initial Manifestation of Facioscapulohumeral Dystrophy in a 2-Year-Old Child
Carol L. Shields, MD;
Jonathan Zahler, DO;
Naomi Falk, OD, MD;
Minoru Furuta, MD;
Ralph C. Eagle Jr, MD;
Luis E. Bello Espinosa, MD;
Philip R. Fischer, MD;
Jerry A. Shields, MD
Arch Ophthalmol. 2007;125(6):840-842.
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Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) is an autosomal dominant muscular dystrophy estimated to affect 1 in 20 000 white persons. The clinical features of this condition range from minimally detectable myopathy to severe disability. There is a characteristic pattern of weakness that affects predominantly the face (facio) and shoulder (scapulohumeral) muscles and later descends inferiorly to the abdomen and the legs.1-3 Symptoms become manifest in the teen years to early adulthood and progress slowly. Recent studies have shown a characteristic deletion in the long arm of chromosome 4 (4q35),2 but the exact mechanism of this disease remains unknown.
Classic Coats disease is a congenital, idiopathic retinal telangiectasia that can progress to severe retinal exudation and detachment.4 Retinal . . . [Full Text of this Article] Report of a Case
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