We have received a request for left/right/bilateral familial pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration (disorder) concepts as a subtype of 193410003 |Sorsby pseudoinflammatory fundus dystrophy (disorder).
Is familial pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration (disorder) the same condition as Sorsby pseudoinflammatory fundus dystrophy?
Thanks in advance for any input. I can find many references to Sorsby pseudoinflammatory fundus dystrophy but not to the requested term other than this reference as a synonym in another ontology.
https://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/NIFDYS?p=classes&conceptid=http%3A%2F%2Furi.neuinfo.org%2Fnif%2Fnifstd%2Fbirnlex_12818
7 Comments
Anthony Khawaja
This is a bit specialist for me. Any inherited retinal specialists here, or I am happy to ask at Moorfields...
Sally Baxter
Adding Cindy Cai in case she has any input.
Found some citations that may provide reference/contextual information for the term familial pseudoinflammatory macular degeneration in case helpful... often used as a synonym for Sorsby it seems.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1085369/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0002939471909652
https://bjo.bmj.com/content/65/12/859
Elaine Wooler
Thanks both and if Cindy Cai is able to comment that would be great. Anthony Khawaja if you could ask at Moorfields please.
Anthony Khawaja
I have sent an email asking...
Cindy Cai
Afraid I'm going to defer to Moorfields about this one. This doesn't come up in general retina much at all.
Anthony Khawaja
I have received back the following:
"I’ve no idea what pseudoinflammatory macular disease is. Sounds like one of those early 20th century terms coined when we were using "
"Sorry didn't finish writing. It's an ancient meaningless term and needs to be dropped. "
So, seems like we should drop "pseudoinflammatory macular disease"?
Elaine Wooler
Thank you, much appreciated to lose any archaic terms.