PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | retinitis |
| Phenotype | C0456909|blindness |
| Sentences | 13 |
| PubMedID- 25957687 | Because the secondary loss of cones in retinitis pigmentosa (rp) leads to blindness, the administration of rdcvf is a promising therapy for this untreatable neurodegenerative disease. |
| PubMedID- 26314276 | Retinal degeneration is a leading cause of blindness that, together with glaucoma, retinitis pigmentosa, and age-related macular degeneration, will affect 196 million people worldwide in 20201. the thickness of human retina approximately varies from 100 micron at periphery and 250 micron at optic nerve head and the retina is composed of three layers (from the interior to the exterior surface: the ganglion neurons, bipolar neurons, and photoreceptors). |
| PubMedID- 25915832 | Retinal degenerative diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa lead to blindness due to gradual loss of photoreceptors, while the inner retinal neurons survive to a large extent1,2, albeit with some rewiring3,4. |
| PubMedID- 20826782 | Both cadherins are defective in usher syndrome type i (sensorineural deafness and blindness due to retinitis pigmentosa). |
| PubMedID- 23349646 | Also, children with usher syndrome, in which people are typically deaf from birth and then develop retinitis pigmentosa leading to blindness in childhood, has been associated with psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia (dammeyer, 2012). |
| PubMedID- 20589218 | His past medical history included cytomegalovirus retinitis with bilateral blindness, kaposi's sarcoma, lipodystrophy and lipoatrophy, hypothyroidism, and hypertension. |
| PubMedID- 25885848 | Two english ophthalmologists, laurence and moon reported four cases of retinitis pigmentosa with marked night blindness and body changes of dwarfism, hypogenitalism and mental deficiency in 1866. |
| PubMedID- 24312285 | Some hereditary diseases, such as retinitis pigmentosa, lead to blindness due to the death of photoreceptors, though the rest of the visual system might be only slightly affected. |
| PubMedID- 24470932 | During the first 15 years of the aids epidemic patients experienced a high incidence of blindness due to cytomegalovirus (cmv) retinitis and other severe ocular opportunistic infections. |
| PubMedID- 21920492 | Autofluorescence imaging and spectral-domain optical coherence tomography in incomplete congenital stationary night blindness and comparison with retinitis pigmentosa. |
| PubMedID- 22247303 | Prior to antiretroviral therapy (art) in adult hiv/aids patients, hcmv was a major opportunistic infection that correlated with retinitis, leading to blindness as well as disseminated infections and in turn mortality [5]. |
| PubMedID- 24702847 | The most common hereditary retinal degeneration, retinitis pigmentosa (rp), leads to blindness by degeneration of cone photoreceptors. |
| PubMedID- 20377873 | Besides hemorrhagic manifestations the virus caused retinitis with blindness, hepatitis and encephalitis [77,78]. |
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