PSYCHIATRIC COMORBIDITY AND RETINITIS-PIG MENTOSA - A CASE-REPORT

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is a rare degenerative genetic disease. Howe ver; it's the more frequently one in all the degenerative ocular affec tions. The comorbidity with psychiatric disorders is rarely reported i n the literature. Some studies schowed an association with recurrent d epression and alcoholism. The case of a patient suffering from RP and who presented a rich psychiatric symptomatology is reported. This como rbidity must be noted because of the implication of the 1 and 11 chrom osome in the RP and because some sites of this chromosome are implicat ed in mental diseases in which addiction and alcoholism.