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J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2007;78:1199-1201 doi:10.1136/jnnp.2006.108415
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Ocular motility and Wilson’s disease: a study on 34 patients

  1. I Ingster-Moati1,
  2. E Bui Quoc2,
  3. M Pless4,
  4. R Djomby5,
  5. C Orssaud2,
  6. J P Guichard6,
  7. F Woimant5
  1. 1
    Université Paris 7 Diderot, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Hôpital Necker, Department of Ophthalmology, INSERM, U669, Paris, France
  2. 2
    Service d’Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique- Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France
  3. 4
    Neuro-ophthalmology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Massachusetts, USA
  4. 5
    Service de Neurologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris 2, Paris, France
  5. 6
    Service de Neuroradiologie, Hôpital Lariboisière, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris 2, Paris, France
  1. Dr Isabelle Ingster-Moati, Service d’Ophtalmologie, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, 149 rue de Sèvres, 75015 Paris, France; isabelle.ingster-moati{at}nck.aphp.fr
  • Received 7 October 2006
  • Revised 17 March 2007
  • Accepted 29 March 2007
  • Published Online First 30 April 2007

Abstract

Background: Wilson’s disease is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder resulting from an abnormality of copper metabolism. The excessive accumulation of copper in the brain induces an extrapyramidal syndrome. Oculomotor abnormalities occur in most extrapyramidal disorders but have rarely been studied in Wilson’s disease.

Objective: To evaluate the ocular motility manifestations of Wilson’s disease.

Methods: A prospective study of 34 patients affected by Wilson’s disease who were recruited and their ocular motility recorded by electro-oculography (EOG).

Results: Vertical smooth pursuit was abnormal in 29 patients (85%). Vertical optokinetic nystagmus and horizontal smooth pursuit were impaired in 41% and 41% of patients, respectively. No MRI abnormality was found in the lenticular nuclei of seven patients who manifested ocular motility abnormalities.

Conclusion: Vertical eye movements, in particular vertical pursuits, are impaired in Wilson’s disease, more often than vertical optokinetic nystagmus and vertical saccades. EOG abnormalities can be found in patients who do not yet exhibit anatomical lesions on MRI.

Footnotes

  • Competing interests: None.

  • Abbreviations:
    EOG
    electro-oculography
    OKN
    optokinetic nystagmus

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