Conditions / Genetic
Stargardt disease 5
info · Genetic
A stargardt disease that is characterized by onset of macular dystrophy in the fifth decade of life, with mildly reduced visual acuity and normal amplitudes on electroretinography and has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the RDH8 gene on chromosome 19p
A stargardt disease that is characterized by onset of macular dystrophy in the fifth decade of life, with mildly reduced visual acuity and normal amplitudes on electroretinography and has_material_basis_in homozygous mutation in the RDH8 gene on chromosome 19p13.
Signs and symptoms
- Retinal flecks
- Subretinal deposits
- Central thinning of the outer nuclear layer of the retina
- Ocular hypertension
- Hypertension
- Mildly reduced visual acuity
- Retinal pigment epithelial atrophy
- Abnormal electroretinogram