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OPHTHALMIC IMAGE
Year : 2020  |  Volume : 68  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 209

Cystinuria in association with cataract


1 Cornea and Anterior Segment, Nirwana Netralaya, Athkhambhwa Sasaram, Bihar, India
2 Department of Pediatric, IGIMS, Patna, Bihar, India
3 Department of Ophthalmology, IGIMS, Patna, Bihar, India

Date of Web Publication19-Dec-2019

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Cornea and Anterior Segment Services, Nirwana Netralaya, Athkhambhwa, Sasaram, Rohtas, Bihar
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DOI: 10.4103/ijo.IJO_1330_19

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Singh P, Gupta R, Gupta A. Cystinuria in association with cataract. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2020 [cited 2024 Mar 28];68:209. Available from: https://journals.lww.com/ijo/pages/default.aspx/text.asp?2020/68/1/209/273190



A 13-year-old girl presented with left eye lenticular opacity. The cataractous lens had hexagonal crystals arranged in pyramidal shape [Figure 1] and [Figure 2]. Medical history of abdominal colic and renal stone was obtained. Urine analysis showed small stones and cysteine in urine. Diagnosis of cystinuria with cataract was made. The intralenticular crystals are hexagonal in shape. The hexagonal cystine crystals in urine are similar to that of intralenticular crystals.[1] However, morphological association between cataract and urine crystals has never been documented in literature. Further studies are needed on this line especially at high volume centers with similar patient profile.
Figure 1: Pyramidal arrangement of hexagonal cataractous crystals in a patient with cystinuria

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Figure 2: Intralenticular hexagonal crystals similar to urine crystals in cystinuria

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Obro LF, Pedersen KV, Lildal SK, Osther SS, Jung HU, Andreassen KH, et al. The challenges of cystinuria in the twenty- first century - A mini review. J Rare Dis Res Treat 2016;1:41-5.  Back to cited text no. 1
    


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