Primary open angle glaucoma in a case of mitochondrial encephalomyopathy (Kearns-Sayre syndrome).
OBJECTIVE
Kearns-Sayre syndrome is characterized by chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, tapetoretinal degeneration and severe generalized myopathy.


RESULTS
We report on a 82-year-old male patient with Kearns-Sayre syndrome with open angle glaucoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Reports of primary open angle glaucoma with Kearns-Sayre syndrome are very rare, but it is difficult to believe that this association is merely coincidental.
Frezzotti
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Department of Ophthalmology, University of Siena, Siena, Italy. frezzottip@unisi.it
Frezzotti
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D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D004576:Electromyography; D004596:Electroretinography; D005902:Glaucoma, Open-Angle / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure; D007625:Kearns-Sayre Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D017237:Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies / Q000150:complications*; D014794:Visual Fields