PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | n syndrome |
| Phenotype | C0035334|retinitis pigmentosa |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 21607024 | Usher syndrome is the most common form of combined hearing and vision loss.1,2 its frequency is reported to be 1/20000.1 usher syndrome is the most common syndrome associated with retinitis pigmentosa,5 and is known to accompany 14% of cases.4 there are many reports of the association of fuchs’ heterochromic uveitis and retinitis pigmentosa.49 the etiology of fuchs’ heterochromic uveitis is not clear, and definitions involve many concurrent retinal diseases.3–6 the association of retinitis pigmentosa and fuchs’ heterochromic uveitis was first reported in 1940,4 and assumed to be coincidental. |
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