Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous
"Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A developmental ocular anomaly in which the primary VITREOUS BODY and its surrounding hyaloid vasculature failed to regress. It is usually unilateral and characterized by CATARACT; MICROPHTHALMOS (small eyeballs), and retrolenticular fibrovascular tissue. (from Yanoff: Ophthalmology, 2nd ed.)
| Descriptor ID |
D054514
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C11.250.616 C16.131.384.725
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| Concept/Terms |
Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous- Persistent Hyperplastic Primary Vitreous
- Persistent Hyaloid Vasculature
- Persistent Hyaloid Vasculatures
- Persistent Fetal Vasculature Syndrome
- Persistent Hyaloid Artery
- Persistent Hyaloid Arteries
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Zhang C, Asnaghi L, Gongora C, Patek B, Hose S, Ma B, Fard MA, Brako L, Singh K, Goldberg MF, Handa JT, Lo WK, Eberhart CG, Zigler JS, Sinha D. A developmental defect in astrocytes inhibits programmed regression of the hyaloid vasculature in the mammalian eye. Eur J Cell Biol. 2011 May; 90(5):440-8.