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Goldmann-Favre disease: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 20.11.2021
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Goldman-Favre disease is progressive vitreoretinal dystrophy with an autosomal recessive type of inheritance, which is characterized by a combination of retinitis pigmentosa with bone bodies, retinoschisis (central and peripheral), and changes in the vitreous (degeneration with the formation of membranes). Often there is a complicated cataract. A frequent complication of the Goldman-Favre disease is retinal detachment.
Symptoms of Goldman-Favre disease
Functional symptoms correspond to the clinical manifestations of Goldman-Favre's disease. Bad twilight vision and night blindness are noted at the age of 5-10 years. Visual acuity is reduced, ring scotoma or concentric narrowing of the visual field is observed. Dark adaptation is broken. One of the main symptoms is an unregistered or abnormal subnormal ERG.
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Treatment of Goldman-Favre disease
There are currently no effective methods for treating Goldman-Favre's disease. Prescribe drugs that improve microcirculation and metabolic processes in the retina. With retinal detachment, surgical treatment is performed.