Residents Day Case Submission for the American Academy of
... IV. Diagnosis and Discussion Diagnosis: Retinal degeneration most likely an RP variant Two types of RP variants have been identified in the Navajo population. One shows a gray granular surface of exposed choroidal tissue, due to RPE loss. This is known as the recessive form and blindness is comm ...
... IV. Diagnosis and Discussion Diagnosis: Retinal degeneration most likely an RP variant Two types of RP variants have been identified in the Navajo population. One shows a gray granular surface of exposed choroidal tissue, due to RPE loss. This is known as the recessive form and blindness is comm ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Center for Vision Research
... “Adaptive Optics Imaging of Inherited Retinal Degenerations” Mina Chung (University of Rochester, Flaum Eye Institute) “Diagnosis and Management of Cystic Macular Lesions in Patients with Inherited Retinal Diseases” Gerald A. Fishman (The Pangere Center for Inherited Retinal Diseases) “Adaptive Opti ...
... “Adaptive Optics Imaging of Inherited Retinal Degenerations” Mina Chung (University of Rochester, Flaum Eye Institute) “Diagnosis and Management of Cystic Macular Lesions in Patients with Inherited Retinal Diseases” Gerald A. Fishman (The Pangere Center for Inherited Retinal Diseases) “Adaptive Opti ...
PowerPoint Presentation - Center for Vision Research
... "Entering the Era of Treating Retinal Degenerative Disease" Samuel G. Jacobson (University of Pennsylvania) “Progress in Finding Genes and Mutations Causing Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa” Stephen P. Daiger (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) “Adaptive Optics Imaging ...
... "Entering the Era of Treating Retinal Degenerative Disease" Samuel G. Jacobson (University of Pennsylvania) “Progress in Finding Genes and Mutations Causing Autosomal Dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa” Stephen P. Daiger (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston) “Adaptive Optics Imaging ...
Retinitis Pigmentosa
... are usually first affected. These forms of RP, sometimes called rod-cone dystrophy, usually begin with night blindness. Night blindness can be described by likening it to the effect on a normally sighted person when they enter a dark building on a bright, sunny day – it takes a few moments for sight ...
... are usually first affected. These forms of RP, sometimes called rod-cone dystrophy, usually begin with night blindness. Night blindness can be described by likening it to the effect on a normally sighted person when they enter a dark building on a bright, sunny day – it takes a few moments for sight ...
Retinitis pigmentosa
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited, degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment due to the progressive degeneration of the rod photoreceptor cells in the retina. This form of retinal dystrophy manifests initial symptoms independent of age; thus, RP diagnosis occurs anywhere from early infancy to late adulthood. Patients in the early stages of RP first notice compromised peripheral and dim light vision due to the decline of the rod photoreceptors. The progressive rod degeneration is later followed by abnormalities in the adjacent retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) and the deterioration of cone photoreceptor cells. As peripheral vision becomes increasingly compromised, patients experience progressive ""tunnel vision"" and eventual blindness. Affected individuals may additionally experience defective light-dark adaptations, nyctalopia (night blindness), and the accumulation of bone spicules in the fundus (eye).