Tanzer Fatos, Firat Mehtap, Alagoz Meral, Erdogan Haydar
Department of Pediatric Metabolism, Cumhuriyet University Medical Faculty, Sivas, Turkey.
BMJ Case Rep. 2011 Mar 15;2011:bcr0720103200. doi: 10.1136/bcr.07.2010.3200.
In this report, an 8-year-old girl is presented with the complaint of progressive night blindness. The authors have performed eye funduscopy, which showed chorioretinal atrophy in gyrate shape. A high level of plasma ornithine was determined. Urinary excretion of ornithine as well as lysine and cystine were increased. Patient was treated with high dose pyridoxine supplement (500 mg/dl). The night blindness condition of the patient improved. After 1 month of pyridoxine therapy ornithine level of her plasma was successfully reduced and blindness improved.
在本报告中,一名8岁女孩因进行性夜盲症前来就诊。作者进行了眼底检查,结果显示为回旋状脉络膜视网膜萎缩。测定血浆鸟氨酸水平升高。鸟氨酸以及赖氨酸和胱氨酸的尿排泄量增加。患者接受了高剂量维生素B6补充剂治疗(500毫克/分升)。患者的夜盲症病情有所改善。维生素B6治疗1个月后,她血浆中的鸟氨酸水平成功降低,失明情况得到改善。