Optic disc swelling and vision loss in a patient with cystic fibrosis and diabetes

Case Rep Endocrinol. 2013:2013:843795. doi: 10.1155/2013/843795. Epub 2013 Aug 19.

Abstract

Advances in cystic fibrosis management have significantly improved life expectancy in these patients. However, we are now faced with a growing number of long-term extrapulmonary consequences of this disease, including ophthalmic complications of diabetes in cystic fibrosis patients. We present a unique report that documents a case of diabetic papillopathy progressing to nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy resulting in vision loss in a patient with CF and diabetes. It highlights the potentially devastating consequences of longstanding diabetes in CF patients.