Optic Disc Swelling and Vision Loss in a Patient with Cystic Fibrosis and Diabetes

Abstract EN

Advances in cystic fibrosis management have significantly improved life expectancy in these patients.

However, we are now faced with a growing number of long-term extrapulmonary consequences of this disease, including ophthalmic complications of diabetes in cystic fibrosis patients.

We present a unique report that documents a case of diabetic papillopathy progressing to nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy resulting in vision loss in a patient with CF and diabetes.

It highlights the potentially devastating consequences of longstanding diabetes in CF patients.