CASE REPORT: UNILATERAL RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA IN A NIGERIAN MALE


Abdull MM*, Olawoye O, Kyari F, Ani PO, Oworu O.

Ophthalmology Department, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi, Bauchi State, Nigeria

*Auteur correspondant: Dr Mohammed Mahdi Abdull. Email: abdullmm@atbu.edu.ng
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Abstract

Pigmentary Retinopathy (PR) comprises a spectrum of hereditary retinal disorders, characterised by progressive damage of the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), leading to degeneration, gradual atrophy and/or total loss of the rods and cones, sometimes with predilection for rods more than cones (rod-cone PR) or vice versa. Unilateral Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a very rare variant of RP, and its diagnosis, though by exclusion, is very important.

We report a rare case of unilateral RP in a 53-year-old Nigerian man.

Mots clés: Retinitis pigmentosa, bone spicule, unilateral, Nigerian

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