Preferred Label : Bietti crystalline retinopathy;
ICD-11 definition : Bietti crystalline retinopathy is a rare progressive autosomal recessive tapetoretinal
degeneration disease, occurring in the third decade of life, characterized by small
sparkling crystalline deposits in the posterior retina and corneal limbus in addition
to sclerosis of the choroidal vessels and manifesting as nightblindness, decreased
vision, paracentral scotoma, and, in the end stages of the disease, legal blindness.;
ICD-11 synonym : Bietti corneal dystrophy; Bietti crystalline dystrophy; BCD - [Bietti corneal dystrophy];
ICD-11 acronym : BCD;
Origin ID : 1922709888;
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- False automatic mappings
Bietti crystalline retinopathy is a rare progressive autosomal recessive tapetoretinal
degeneration disease, occurring in the third decade of life, characterized by small
sparkling crystalline deposits in the posterior retina and corneal limbus in addition
to sclerosis of the choroidal vessels and manifesting as nightblindness, decreased
vision, paracentral scotoma, and, in the end stages of the disease, legal blindness.
