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Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy

Disease Summary
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GARD Rare
Mondo Description Bietti's crystalline dystrophy (BCD) is a rare progressive autosomal recessive tapetoretinal degeneration disease, occurring in the third decade of life, characterized by small sparkling crystalline deposits in the posterior retina and corneal limbus in addition to sclerosis of the choroidal vessels and manifesting as nightblindness, decreased vision, paracentral scotoma, and, in the end stages of the disease, legal blindness.
Uniprot Description An autosomal recessive ocular disease characterized by retinal degeneration and marginal corneal dystrophy. Typical features include multiple glistening intraretinal crystals scattered over the fundus, a characteristic degeneration of the retina, and sclerosis of the choroidal vessels, ultimately resulting in progressive night blindness and constriction of the visual field. Most patients have similar crystals at the corneoscleral limbus. Patients develop decreased vision, nyctalopia, and paracentral scotomata between the 2nd and 4th decade of life. Later, they develop peripheral visual field loss and marked visual impairment, usually progressing to legal blindness by the 5th or 6th decade of life.
Disease Ontology Description A retinal degeneration that is characterized by crystals in the cornea, shiny deposits on the retina and progressive atrophy of the retina, choriocapillaris and choroid, has_material_basis_in autosomal recessive inheritance of homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation in the CYP4V2 gene on chromosome 4q35.
Mondo Term and Equivalent IDs
MONDO:0008865:  Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy
GARD:0010050: 
MESH:C535440: 
Orphanet:41751: 
SCTID:312927001: 
UMLS:C1859486: