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H Schatz

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PubMed1992

Malignant transformation of rat thyroid cells transfected with the human TSH receptor cDNA.

Growth and function of well differentiated FRTL-5 thyroid cells depend on thyrotropin as its main regulatory hormone. We demonstrate here that stable transfection of FRTL-5 cells with the human thyrotropin receptor cDNA results in cellular transformation of these cells with altered cell shape and loss of contact inhibition. The transformed cells replicate in soft agar and form invasive tumors when cell suspensions are implanted onto nude mice. They have lost their thyrotropin dependent growth and their ability to concentrate iodide and synthesize thyroglobulin. But they still express the rat thyrotropin receptor mRNA and accumulate cAMP in response to thyrotropin stimulation. However, although the full length human thyrotropin receptor cDNA is integrated into their genome, transformed cells do not express the human thyrotropin receptor mRNA.

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PubMed1992

Central serous chorioretinopathy occurring in patients 60 years of age and older.

The authors report on 13 eyes in 13 patients, 60 years of age or older, with idiopathic central serous chorioretinopathy, a condition that typically presents in adults between the ages of 30 and 50 years. In older patients, this condition can easily be mistaken for macular degeneration with subretinal neovascularization. None of the patients in this series had soft drusen, geographic atrophy, or subretinal neovascularization, signs of age-related macular degeneration or other retinal or macular disease. Subretinal neovascularization was not seen either at the time of initial diagnosis or during follow-up. The clinical, biomicroscopic, and fluorescein angiographic characteristics of this entity are described. The clinical course of 7 of these 13 eyes that underwent laser photocoagulation treatment is also described.

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PubMed1992

Central retinal vein occlusion in young adults (papillophlebitis).

We performed a retrospective study of 103 cases of central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) in young, nondiabetic adults that were followed for at least six months. Of these patients, 64% were men and 36% were women. While visual acuity was usually good, 33 eyes (32%) had a final visual acuity of 20/200 or worse, including 6 eyes (6%) with a final visual acuity of no light perception. Ocular complications included chronic cystoid macular edema, macular pigmentary changes (37%), sheathing of retinal vessels (22%), venous collaterals of the disc (33%), macular hole formation (1%), neovascularization of the disc (1%), retina (1%), and iris (19%), neovascular glaucoma (8%), and vitreous hemorrhage (7%).

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PubMed1992

Bread crumb-flecked retinopathy.

The case of a young girl with bilateral retinal flecks, normal fluorescein angiography results, and normal electrophysiologic findings is reported. The fundus appeared to consist of multiple, scattered, pale, bread crumb-like lesions that seemed to lie deep to the retinal vessels and anterior to the retinal pigment epithelium. The lesions were located outside the posterior pole in the midperiphery, and spared the macula and perimacular areas. The disorder may be associated with anomalies of the central nervous system and extraocular motility. No reports of similarly described fundus lesions have been found in the literature.

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PubMed1992

Sclerochoroidal calcification.

We studied 19 patients with sclerochoroidal calcification. The findings were bilateral in 16 patients and unilateral in the remaining three patients. The lesions, which were usually multifocal, had two characteristic appearances, plaque-like and tumorlike. Eleven patients had relatively flat, irregularly shaped, plaque-like, yellow-white lesions located between the arcades and the equator. Eight patients had more elevated tumorlike lesions, ranging up to 6 mm in height. All showed patterns on echography consistent with calcification. The calcification was often documented in both the choroid and sclera; sometimes it appeared only in the choroid, but never only in the sclera. Calcium metabolism appeared to be normal in all but two of the nine patients in whom it was investigated. Idiopathic sclerochoroidal calcification has a characteristic echographic and ophthalmoscopic appearance and may be more common than has been realized.

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PubMed1991

Progressive enlargement of laser scars following grid laser photocoagulation for diffuse diabetic macular edema.

Laser photocoagulation in a grid pattern is effective in many eyes in resolving diffuse diabetic macular edema and stabilizing vision. We retrospectively studied 203 eyes of 203 patients, all of whom had diabetic macular edema treated with grid laser photocoagulation. During the follow-up period, 11 of these 203 eyes developed enlargement of the laser scars that progressed into the central fovea. Each of the 11 eyes experienced loss of vision, and in five, the visual loss was significant. Five of these eyes also developed a retinal pigment hyperplastic scar. After the laser treatment, but before the scars enlarged, the visual acuity of these eyes was unchanged from that before treatment. But after the atrophic scars enlarged into the central fovea, visual acuity in one eye decreased from 20/40 to 20/100, and the other 10 eyes had visual acuities of 20/200 or worse.

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PubMed1991

Clinicopathologic correlation of retinal to choroidal venous collaterals of the optic nerve head.

An optic nerve meningioma developed in an elderly woman and was followed for 13 years until her death. The optic nerve was initially normal. Over time it became swollen and then atrophic and developed retinal venous to choroidal venous collaterals. Five hundred serial sections were prepared through the optic nerve and for approximately 1.5 mm superiorly and inferiorly to the optic nerve to trace the course of the collaterals that were seen ophthalmoscopically and angiographically in the optic nerve head. This clinicopathologic study shows clearly that the abnormal channels are, in fact, retinal venous to choroidal venous collaterals (bypass channels). Four collaterals extended around the end of Bruch's membrane at the optic nerve head. Two more collaterals extended through the retinal pigment epithelium to become continuous with a subretinal pigment epithelial neovascular membrane, the vessels of which connected with the choroidal vessels through a defect in Bruch's membrane.

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PubMed1979

Autosomal dominant dystrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium.

This study describes a salt-and-pepper fundus appearance in nine relatives in three generations of a single white kindred. Two of these patients also had subretinal patterned pigment figures by ophthalmoscopy. In another, fluorescein angiography showed a reticular pattern that was not apparent by ophthalmoscopy. This dystrophy was functionally benign, although the electro-oculogram ratio was abnormal in affected patients. This pigmentary dystrophy and fundus pulverulentus, reticular dystrophy of Benedikt and Werner, and pattern dystrophy of Marmor and Byers are indistinguishable. When patterned pigment figures are absent, this autosomal-dominant pigmentary dystrophy of the retinal pigment epithelium can be confused with other disorders such as congenital rubella retinopathy and drug toxicity.

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