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Incidence and Risk Factors of Ocular Complications Among Patients With Homocystinuria

Sponsor: King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital

Summary

Background: Cysteine beta-synthase (CBS) deficiency, often known as classic homocystinuria (HCU), is an uncommon inborn mistake in methionine metabolism. Developmental delay, intellectual incapacity, skeletal and vascular symptoms, and ocular abnormalities are possible main clinical characteristics. Objective: This study sought to describe the ocular anomalies that King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, HCU patients presented with between 2018 and 2022.

Official title: Incidence and Risk Factors of Ocular Complications Among Patients With Homocystinuria in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: A Cross-sectional Study

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