Inherited Retinal Diseases: Cause and treatment.
As the name implies, the cause of inherited retinal diseases are genetic. There are many inherited retinal diseases that vary widely in severity. Some of these include:
- Retinitis pigmentosa (including Usher syndrome)
- Cone and Cone-rod dystrophy
- Stargardt's disease (Fundus flavimaculatus)
- Best's disease (Vitelliform dystrophy)
- Pattern dystrophy
- Leber congenital amaurosis
- Bardet-Biedl syndrome
- Refsum syndrome
- Batten disease
- Central areolar choroidal dystrophy
- Sorsby fundus dystrophy
- Peripapillary choroidal dystrophy
- Progressive bifocal chorioretinal atrophy
- Bietti crystalline retinopathy
- Choroideremia
- Gyrate atrophy
- Congenital achromatopsia
- Congenital stationary night blindness
- X-linked juvenile retinoschisis
- Dominant drusen
- Stickler syndrome
- Wagner syndrome and Jansen syndrome
- Goldmann-Favre vitreotapetoretinal degeneration
The diagnostic methods and treatment regimens vary with the diseases. Our retina specialists can recognize and treat these disorders with the most modern techniques available.
