Case report: Progressive visual loss without retinal detachment in Stickler Syndrome. An uncommon and novel presentation

Stickler Syndrome is known to cause visual handicap due to high incidence of retinal detachment. We aim to present an unusual case of a child with Stickler syndrome who had progressive visual loss secondary to atrophy of outer retinal layers not associated with retinal detachment. This is a descriptive case report of a 9-year-old child, with ocular history of high myopia, who presented to our institution with suboptimal visual acuity in both eyes. After 2 years of follow up, he developed unilateral progressive visual loss with marked atrophy of the outer retinal layers and peripheral vascular leakage.
Such a presentation was not previously described in the literature to the best of our knowledge.