Blepharoptosis-myopia-ectopia lentis syndrome

What it is

A rare, genetic, lens position anomaly disease characterized by bilateral congenital blepharoptosis, ectopia lentis and high grade myopia. Additional reported manifestations include abnormally long eye globes and signs of levator aponeurosis disinsertion. There have been no further descriptions in the literature since 1982.

Key facts

Prevalence

<1 / 1 000 000

Age of onset

Childhood

Inheritance

Autosomal dominant

Classified as

Disease

Prevalence figures describe populations, not individuals, and are often estimates from a single study. Where the figure is an incidence or a birth prevalence, it says so.

Signs and symptoms

These ranges are how often a sign appears across everyone diagnosed, not a prediction for one person — most people have some of these and not others. Orphanet also records findings that are specifically absent in this disease; those are in the data but not listed here.

ICD-10 codes

ICD-10 has no distinct code for most rare diseases, so many are filed under the nearest available one. A shared code identifies the group, not this disease — the ORPHAcode above is what identifies it.

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