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As usual, our Friday post will be short, sweet and informative! Heheh.
Symptoms for tyrosinemia type 2 usually surface when the children are between 2-4 years old, with
ocular symptoms appearing first. They include:
- Excessive tearing
- Photophobia (abnormal sensitivity to light)
- Red and painful eyes
- Painful and progressive skin lesions on palms and soles (palmoplantar hyperkeratosis)
- Mental or somatic retardation (intellectual disability)
- Cornea ulceration and scarring (may lead to decreased visual acuity)
- Bilateral dendritiform cornea lesions (pseudodendritic keratitis)
- Accumulation of large inclusion bodies and tyrosine crystal-like structures in conjunctival epithelium, fibrocytes and blood vessel endothelial cells
Hope you guys have a clearer picture of Tyrosinemia Type II now and see how it actually differs from Type I.
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