What are the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa?

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Many people may have heard of the disease of retinitis pigmentosa, because they often see such news as the implantation of "anti birth eye" to make the blind patients with retinitis pigmentosa see the light again. Next, let me share the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa?. Hope to help you.

What are the symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa?

First, retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a common genetic blinding eye disease, characterized by progressive damage to visual cells, with a global prevalence of 1:5000-1:3000.

Second, the clinical manifestations were night blindness, progressive visual field defect, fundus pigmentation and abnormal electroretinogram. Some patients may have cataract, glaucoma or cystoid macular edema.

Third: the fundus can be shown as the color of the optic disc waxy yellow, retinal blood vessels uniform thinning, pigment epithelium mottled, typical can appear osteocyte like pigmentation.

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In short, at present, retinitis pigmentosa is still a kind of despairing eye disease. Because it is a kind of hereditary eye disease in which the rod body of visual cells is gradually destroyed, and there is no specific treatment at present, many patients can only gradually lose their eyesight or even blindness while waiting for the progress of science and technology.