Retinal honeycomb appearance and its role in patients with X-linked retinoschisis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To investigate the clinical characteristics of retinal honeycomb appearance in a large cohort of patients with X-linked retinoschisis (XLRS) and to determine whether it is associated with complications like retinal detachment (RD) and vitreous hemorrhage (VH).

Methods

A retrospective observational case series. A chart review of medical records, wide-field fundus imaging, and optical coherence tomography (OCT) was performed on 78 patients (153 eyes) diagnosed with XLRS at Beijing Tongren eye center between Dec 2017 and Feb 2022. The chi-square test or Fisher exact test was performed on the 2 × 2 cross-tabulations of honeycomb appearance and other peripheral retinal findings and complications.

Results

Thirty-eight patients (48.7%), and 60 eyes (39.2%) had a h

SUBMITTER: Ma J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9987038 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature