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What is retinitis pigmentosa and what is the treatment of it?

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Question added by saeeda bokhari , WOMAN MEDICAL OFFICER AND MANAGER LEVEL ALSO. , MARIE STOPES SOCIETY(R.H.S.B),MULTAN.
Date Posted: 2016/02/24
Mary Christine Pechon
by Mary Christine Pechon , Staff Nurse , Farhan Al Nader Poly Clinic

A genetic disorder and there is no treatment found as yet .

Ali Alsheikheh
by Ali Alsheikheh , consultant ophthalmologist , Alnahdha hospital

is a genetic disorder of the eyes that cause loss of vision. symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreased peripheral vision.There's no cure for retinitis pigments , but so much research for finding a treatment.

Myriam Ben Salem Habchi
by Myriam Ben Salem Habchi , senior specialist registrar , hedi raies national institute of ophtalmology

it is a genetic disorder with a loss of rod and cone photoreceptor cells. actually, there is no cure of retinitis pigmentosa. Future treatments may involves retinal transplants, artificial retinal implant and gene therapy.

Ermanno Scerrati
by Ermanno Scerrati , Consultant Ophthalmology , Care UK

it's a genetic inherited. it's always starts with a disturbances of dark vision and then the central vision. We can see the damnage of periphery of the visual field and the "b" wave of ERG is going to decrease progressively.

ABDULMONEM  ASKAR
by ABDULMONEM ASKAR , ophthalmologist , Prince mansour military hospital

this is rods and cons  retinal dystrophy , genitic inherited , afected night  vision first , then may cause sever reduced of central  VA  .

untill now no treatment foe this case , but may use antioxidant , and low aid vision in selected cases .

if accombined with KC , catarct , Glaucoma , so this disease must treated .  

mohammed alhemyari
by mohammed alhemyari , Glaucoma and Cataract Specialist , Sankara Eye Hospital

 

Retinitis pigmentosa is a genetic inherited disease couse retinal degeneration. characterized by progressive peripheral vision loss and night vision difficulties, there is no treatment for this disease but there are new studies on genetic therapy for it.

Vladimyr Villarreal
by Vladimyr Villarreal , Medical Surgeon Chief , Hospital Nuestra Señora de la Luz

Cones and Rods distrophy , and there is no tratment at the moment, but use of antioxidants may retard progress

bashir alnajjar
by bashir alnajjar , senior specialist ophthalmology , king khaled hospital

RP retinitis pigmentosa is a type of retina dystrophy, inhertied diereses, no definite treatment vitamin a can help and we treat RP with visua; aids in advanced disease, cataract surgery if there is cataract and so on.   

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