Alyousef Nada, Alsakran Wael A, Maktabi Azza
Department of Ophthalmology, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Vitreoretinal Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Case Rep Ophthalmol. 2024 Oct 4;15(1):717-723. doi: 10.1159/000541410. eCollection 2024 Jan-Dec.
Calciphylaxis is a condition that causes vascular calcification and intimal proliferation with thrombotic occlusion of small-to-medium-sized vessels.
We describe a case of a 64-year-old woman who presented with a clinical picture that was suggestive of anterior arteritic ischemic optic neuropathy due to giant cell arteritis (GCA), but was found to have calciphylaxis confirmed by histologic examination. When calciphylaxis affects the blood supply to the eye, commonly it causes sudden vision loss, pallid optic disk edema, and a relative afferent pupillary defect, all of which were observed in our patient.
There is no known cure for calciphylaxis, while in GCA, high-dose corticosteroid therapy is essential to prevent involvement of the contralateral eye. As the management approaches for these two diseases are different, it is important to have performed a thorough clinical examination along with detailed histopathological testing to rule out calciphylaxis of the temporal artery in patients suspected to have GCA.
钙化防御是一种导致血管钙化和内膜增生,并伴有中小血管血栓性闭塞的病症。
我们描述了一例64岁女性患者,其临床表现提示因巨细胞动脉炎(GCA)导致的前部动脉炎性缺血性视神经病变,但经组织学检查确诊为钙化防御。当钙化防御影响眼部血液供应时,通常会导致突然视力丧失、苍白性视盘水肿和相对性传入瞳孔障碍,所有这些在我们的患者中均有观察到。
钙化防御尚无已知的治愈方法,而在GCA中,高剂量皮质类固醇治疗对于预防对侧眼受累至关重要。由于这两种疾病的治疗方法不同,对于疑似患有GCA的患者,进行全面的临床检查以及详细的组织病理学检测以排除颞动脉钙化防御非常重要。