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Leber congenital amaurosis 2

info · Eye · ICD-10: H35.5

A Leber congenital amaurosis that is characterized by night blindness, some transient improvement in vision, and eventual progressive visual loss and has_material_basis_in mutation in the RPE65 gene on chromosome 1.

Signs and symptoms

  • Nyctalopia
  • Nystagmus
  • Reduced visual acuity
  • Undetectable light- and dark-adapted electroretinogram
  • Attenuation of retinal blood vessels
  • Optic disc pallor
  • Cerebellar vermis hypoplasia
  • Eye poking
  • Pigmentary retinopathy
  • Blindness

Also known as: LCA2; amaurosis congenita of Leber II