- When a patient is diagnosed with a progressive and untreatable retinal degeneration, follow-up exams usually emphasize optimal vision correction and various low vision aids.
- Some patients with an untreatable retinal degeneration may also develop a treatable disorder but the latter diagnosis may be delayed and hampered by the former.
- In this week’s case, a patient with Stargardt’s macula degeneration eventually developed normal tension glaucoma, a diagnosis complicated by field loss attributable to Stargardt and by normal IOPs.
- This week’s case was chosen to commemorate the pioneering work of Karl Stargardt, who first described this disorder 100 years ago.