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With interest we read the article by Kaisari and Borruat about six female patients with maculopathy due to the mtDNA variant m.3243A>G [1]. Visual acuity ranged from 1/60 to 10/10, visual field abnormalities ranged from minimal decreased sensitivity to absolute central scotoma, and three patients exhibited variable degrees of characteristic perimacular and peripapillary retinal pigment epithelium abnormalities, with mottled dye autofluorescence and retinal pigment epithelium atrophy, and deposits on optic coherence tomography [1]. The study is appealing but raises a number of concerns.
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