Diseases

Leber Congenital Amaurosis

A rare degenerative inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life that results in a loss of vision. Not to be confused with LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY, the disease is thought to be caused by abnormal development of PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS in the RETINA, or by the extremely premature degeneration of retinal cells.

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A rare degenerative inherited eye disease that appears at birth or in the first few months of life that results in a loss of vision. Not to be confused with LEBER HEREDITARY OPTIC NEUROPATHY, the disease is thought to be caused by abnormal development of PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS in the RETINA, or by the extremely premature degeneration of retinal cells.

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  • Amaurosis, Leber Congenital
  • Congenital Retinal Blindness
  • Leber Abiotrophy
  • Leber Congenital Tapetoretinal Degeneration
  • Leber's Amaurosis
  • Abiotrophies, Leber
  • Abiotrophy, Leber
  • Amauroses, Leber Congenital
  • Amauroses, Leber's
  • Amaurosis, Leber's
  • Blindness, Congenital Retinal
  • Blindnesses, Congenital Retinal
  • Congenital Amauroses, Leber
  • Congenital Amaurosis, Leber
  • Congenital Retinal Blindnesses
  • Leber Abiotrophies
  • Leber Amaurosis
  • Leber Congenital Amauroses
  • Leber's Amauroses
  • Lebers Amaurosis
  • Retinal Blindnesses, Congenital
  • Congenital Amaurosis of Retinal Origin
  • Dysgenesis Neuroepithelialis Retinae
  • Hereditary Epithelial Dysplasia of Retina
  • Hereditary Retinal Aplasia
  • Heredoretinopathia Congenitalis

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Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, embryology, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, radiotherapy, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, veterinary, virology.

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History Note

2010

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Previous Indexing

  • Retinal Diseases (1963-2009)

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  1. C11w.270.516w
  2. C11w.768w.364w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Leber Congenital Amaurosis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D057130. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D057130
  2. Leber Congenital Amaurosis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leber_congenital_amaurosis
  3. Leber Congenital Amaurosis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1811132