A 56-year-old male with family background of corneal dystrophy presents with poor subjective vision. Biomicroscopy reveals bilateral reticular stromal dystrophy and facial inspection shows signs of muscle dysfunction, such as eyebrow ptosis, weakness and sagging of the frontal muscles, redundant skin on the forehead and skin hyperelasticity. The patient is referred to Plastic Surgery for evaluation of the frontal muscle involvement, undergoing a frontotemporal lifting procedure. On the other hand, genetics confirms the pathogenic variant c.640G>A (p.Asp214Asn) in the GSN gene, encoding gelsolin, a mutation associated with Finnish-type familial amyloidosis or Meretoja syndrome.
Keywords: Distrofia corneal reticular; Frontotemporal lifting; Gelsolin; Gelsolina; Lattice corneal dystrophy; Lifting frontotemporal; Meretoja syndrome; Síndrome de Meretoja.
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