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  • Title: Recessive Stargardt disease phenocopying hydroxychloroquine retinopathy.
    Author: Nõupuu K, Lee W, Zernant J, Greenstein VC, Tsang S, Allikmets R.
    Journal: Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol; 2016 May; 254(5):865-72. PubMed ID: 26311262.
    Abstract:
    PURPOSE: To describe a series of patients with Stargardt disease (STGD1) exhibiting a phenotype usually associated with hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) retinopathy on spectral domain-optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT). METHODS: Observational case series from Columbia University Medical Center involving eight patients with genetically-confirmed STGD1. Patients selected for the study presented no history of HCQ use. Horizontal macular SD-OCT scans and accompanying 488-nm autofluorescence (AF) images, color fundus photographs, and full-field electroretinograms were analyzed. RESULTS: All study patients exhibited an abrupt thinning of the parafoveal region or disruption of the outer retinal layers on SD-OCT resembling the transient HCQ retinopathy phenotype. Funduscopy and AF imaging revealed variations of bull's eye maculopathy (BEM). Five patients exhibited local fleck-like deposits around the lesion. Genetic screening confirmed two disease-causing ABCA4 mutations in five patients and one mutation in three patients. CONCLUSIONS: A transient SD-OCT phenotype ascribed to patients with HCQ retinopathy is associated with an early subtype of STGD1. This finding may also present with HCQ retinopathy-like BEM lesions on AF imaging and funduscopy. A possible phenotypic overlap is unsurprising, given certain shared mechanistic disease processes between the two conditions. A thorough work-up, including screening of genes that are causal in retinal dystrophies associated with foveal sparing, may prevent misdiagnosis of more ambiguous cases.
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