Ocular manifestations of analgesia syndrom in children

Abstract

Congenital analgesia is characterized by insensitivity to pain. Children with this syndrome feel no physical pain when biting their tongues, lips, cheeks or fingers, which often results in significant bleeding. Burns and traumas leave numerous scars on the body. Clinical cases are presented of children with insensitivity to pain who have similar symptoms: the cerebral cranium dominates the facial skeleton, facial expressions are reduced. Ocular manifestations involve absence of blinking reflex and corneal sensitivity. These features lead to the erosion of the cornea in the followed-up patients which were later complicated by corneal ulcers. The patients underwent autoconjunctival covering of the cornea and blepharorrhaphy. Therapeutic contact lenses were prescribed // Russian Ophthalmological Journal, 2017; 1: 85-9. doi: 10.21516/2072-0076-2017-10-1-85-89.

Keywords

• синдром аналгии
• язва роговицы
• блефарорафия
• congenital analgesia
• corneal ulcer
• blepharorrhaphy