Corneal Dystrophy
A group of inherited conditions affecting one or more layers of the cornea, including Fuchs endothelial dystrophy (often linked to a TCF4 repeat expansion), TGFBI-related granular and lattice dystrophies, and rarer types caused by genes such as SLC4A11, COL8A2, ZEB1 and CHST6.
What a diagnosis changes
Carriers of TGFBI variants are generally advised to avoid laser refractive surgery (LASIK or PRK), which can make deposits worse; corneal transplant can restore vision in advanced disease.
Genes analysed
Also known as
Corneal dystrophies; corneal dystrophy (disease)
Includes 57 related subtypes ↓Hide subtypes ↑
- autosomal dominant keratitis
- band keratopathy
- central cloudy dystrophy of François
- Chandler syndrome
- congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy of cornea
- congenital hereditary endothelial dystrophy type I
- congenital stromal corneal dystrophy
- corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial, 1
- corneal dystrophy, fuchs endothelial, 2
- corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial, 3
- corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial, 4
- corneal dystrophy, fuchs endothelial, 5
- corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial, 6
- corneal dystrophy, fuchs endothelial, 7
- corneal dystrophy, Fuchs endothelial, 8
- corneal dystrophy, lattice type 3A
- corneal dystrophy, Meesmann, 1
- corneal dystrophy, Meesmann, 2
- corneal dystrophy, posterior polymorphous, 4
- corneal dystrophy, punctiform and polychromatic pre-descemet
- corneal endothelial dystrophy
- corneal granular dystrophy
- corneal intraepithelial dyskeratosis-palmoplantar hyperkeratosis-laryngeal dyskeratosis syndrome
- epithelial and subepithelial corneal dystrophy
- epithelial basement membrane dystrophy
- epithelial recurrent erosion dystrophy
- epithelial-stromal TGFBI dystrophy
- Finnish type amyloidosis
- fleck corneal dystrophy
- Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy
- gelatinous drop-like corneal dystrophy
- granular corneal dystrophy type I
- granular corneal dystrophy type II
- Grayson-Wilbrandt corneal dystrophy
- hereditary benign intraepithelial dyskeratosis
- honey-droplet corneal dystrophy
- Judge Misch wright syndrome
- lattice corneal dystrophy
- lattice corneal dystrophy type I
- Lisch epithelial corneal dystrophy
- macular corneal dystrophy
- macular dystrophy, fenestrated sheen type
- Meesmann corneal dystrophy
- posterior amorphous corneal dystrophy
- posterior corneal dystrophy
- posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy
- posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy 1
- posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy 2
- posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy 3
- pre-descemet corneal dystrophy
- Reis-Bucklers corneal dystrophy
- Schnyder corneal dystrophy
- stromal corneal dystrophy
- subepithelial mucinous corneal dystrophy
- superficial corneal dystrophy
- Thiel-Behnke corneal dystrophy
- X-linked endothelial corneal dystrophy
