Retinitis Pigmentosa Tag

23 May Alcoholism Drug Restores Vision in Mice with Retinal Degeneration

Posted at 09:12h in Eye Diseases, Retina Diseases by Gregory H. Scimeca, M.D. 0 Comments

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Antabuse, an alcoholism treatment, may also be treatment for macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa....

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29 Aug How Does Gene Therapy Work?

Posted at 07:38h in Eye Health, Retina Diseases by Gregory H. Scimeca, M.D. 0 Comments

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Gene therapy is an investigational but exciting method by which diseases may actually be cured...

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14 May Luxturna | First Gene Therapy Treats Blindness

Posted at 10:00h in Eye Health, Treatments by Gregory H. Scimeca, M.D. 0 Comments

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First patient to receive Luxturna was a 13 year old boy with Leber's congenital amaurosis, a heritable form of blindness due to defective copies of RPE65 genes. ...

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21 Oct Gene Therapy Cures Blindness

Posted at 16:50h in Eye Health, Retina Diseases, Treatments by Gregory H. Scimeca, M.D. 0 Comments

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Two types of inherited blindness due to defective retinal genes may be curable with gene therapy. Read about this exciting recent development. ...

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