Kearns-Sayre syndrome is characterized by chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, tapetoretinal degeneration and severe generalized myopathy.
Methods
AND RESULTS. We report on a 82-year-old male patient with Kearns-Sayre syndrome with open angle glaucoma.
DISCUSSION
Reports of primary open angle glaucoma with Keams-Sayre syndrome are very rare, but it is difficult to believe that this association is merely coincidental.
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