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Retinitis Pigmentosa

Background

Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP) is the name given to a group of hereditary diseases of the retina, the light sensitive tissue at the back of the eye in which the first stages of 'seeing' take place.

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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 August 2006 by Professor A T Moore, Duke-Elder Professor of Ophthalmology, Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK.

 

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