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Optic neuropathy in a patient with pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency.

[pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency]

Pyruvate dehydrogenase (PDH) deficiency is a genetic disorder of mitochondrial metabolism. The clinical manifestations range from severe neonatal lactic acidosis to chronic neurodegeneration. Optic neuropathy is an uncommon clinical sequela and the imaging findings of optic neuropathy in these patients have not previously been described. We present a patient with PDH deficiency with bilateral decreased vision in whom MRI demonstrated bilateral optic neuropathy and chiasmopathy.

Diseases presenting "chiasmopathy" symptom

  • pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency

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