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CASE REPORT
Radius-Maumenee syndrome: a rare cause of glaucoma
  1. Sara Homem de Melo Marques1,2,
  2. Cláudia Farinha1,3,
  3. Amélia Martins1,
  4. Pedro Faria1,3
  1. 1Centro de Responsabilidade Integrado de Oftalmologia, Centro Hospitalar e Universitario de Coimbra EPE, Coimbra, Portugal
  2. 2Ophthalmology Department, Centro Hospitalar Tondela-Viseu, Viseu, Portugal
  3. 3Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
  1. Correspondence to Dr Sara Homem de Melo Marques, saramelomarques{at}gmail.com

Summary

Case presentation of a 41-year-old woman with long-standing bilateral eye injection whose clinical findings included bilateral episcleral vessel engorgement and tortuosity, raised intraocular pressure with open iridocorneal angles and left optic disc cupping. All remaining objective examination was normal. She underwent cranial and orbits CT and CT-angiography scans which were unremarkable. Optical coherence tomography of the peripapillary nerve fibre layer and automated perimetry were compatible with advanced glaucomatous damage on the left eye. The patient was diagnosed with idiopathic elevated episcleral venous pressure or Radius-Maumenee syndrome. If medical therapy is unable to prevent disease progression, left eye filtering surgery will be proposed.

  • ophthalmology
  • glaucoma

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Footnotes

  • Contributors SHdMM was responsible for writing the manuscript. CF acquired patient data and designed the work. AM collected and organised all patient iconography. PF critically revised patient data and manuscript content.

  • Competing interests None declared.

  • Patient consent Obtained.

  • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.