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Usher syndrome

Background

Usher syndrome is a genetic condition characterised by sensory neural hearing loss with Retinitis Pigmentosa. The hearing loss is usually congenital and may be total or partial. Retinitis pigmentosa, a progressive deterioration of the retina which causes night blindness, tunnel vision and finally severely reduced central vision, may not occur until late childhood or early adulthood. In some forms, poor balance is an associated problem.

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Medical text written November 1991 by Contact a Family. Approved November 1991 by Professor M Patton, Professor of Medical Genetics, St Georges Hospital Medical School, London, UK and Dr J E Wraith, Consultant Paediatrician, Royal Manchester Children's Hospital, Manchester, UK. Last updated June 2006 by Dr. Maria Bitner-Glindzicz, Academic Head of the Clinical and Molecular Genetics Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

 

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