Post-inflammatory retinal dystrophy in CINCA syndrome

Rheumatol Int. 2010 Jan;30(3):389-93. doi: 10.1007/s00296-009-0939-y. Epub 2009 May 8.

Abstract

Right chorioretinitis and bilateral pseudopapilledema were firstly appreciated in a 9-month-old child with neonatal findings of aseptic chronic meningitis, framed in the context of CINCA syndrome at 1 year. Therapeutical response to various combinations of drugs was inconsistent until 7 years, when anakinra was started with immediate clinical and laboratory improvement. A state of severe retinal dystrophy of post-inflammatory origin became evident on funduscopy, optical coherence tomography and visual electrophysiology tests at the age of 10 years, which remained stationary after 1 year of anakinra treatment.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Antirheumatic Agents / therapeutic use
  • Carrier Proteins / genetics
  • Child
  • Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes / complications*
  • Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes / drug therapy
  • Cryopyrin-Associated Periodic Syndromes / physiopathology
  • Disease Progression
  • Humans
  • Inflammation / complications
  • Inflammation / drug therapy
  • Inflammation / physiopathology
  • Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein / therapeutic use
  • Interleukin-1 / metabolism
  • Male
  • NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein
  • Receptors, Interleukin-1 / antagonists & inhibitors
  • Receptors, Interleukin-1 / metabolism
  • Retina / immunology*
  • Retina / metabolism
  • Retina / physiopathology
  • Retinal Diseases / genetics*
  • Retinal Diseases / immunology*
  • Retinal Diseases / physiopathology
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antirheumatic Agents
  • Carrier Proteins
  • Interleukin 1 Receptor Antagonist Protein
  • Interleukin-1
  • NLR Family, Pyrin Domain-Containing 3 Protein
  • NLRP3 protein, human
  • Receptors, Interleukin-1