The teen-ager has L . O . A . _ Leber's Optic Atrophy _ a degenerative eye disease that can lead to total loss of vision.
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Among patients with ocular Beh�et's disease funduscopic findings of optic atrophy, and optic disc paleness have been identified with a frequency of 17.9 percent and 7.4 percent, respectively.
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Mutations in this gene are associated with an autosomal recessive syndrome characterized by insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and bilateral progressive optic atrophy, usually presenting in childhood or early adult life.
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At the time, Paterson, who has optic atrophy that has left him completely blind in his left eye and with very limited vision in his right, was an inexperienced runner.
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Some reported cases have been found to carry mutations in the OPA1, OPA3 or C12ORF65 genes which are known causes of pure optic atrophy or optic atrophy complicated by movement disorder.
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In short, optic atrophy is the end result of any disease that damages nerve cells anywhere between the retinal ganglion cells and the lateral geniculate body ( anterior visual system ).
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Some reported cases have been found to carry mutations in the OPA1, OPA3 or C12ORF65 genes which are known causes of pure optic atrophy or optic atrophy complicated by movement disorder.
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Because the onset of Dominant optic atrophy is insidious, symptoms are often not noticed by the patients in its early stages and are picked up by chance in routine school eye screenings.
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In Durantas'case, his blindness is a result of optic atrophy _ a condition in which there is a degeneration of the nerve responsible for carrying sight impulses from the retina to the brain.
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Mutations in this gene have been associated with optic atrophy type 1, which is a dominantly inherited optic neuropathy resulting in progressive loss of visual acuity, leading in many cases to legal blindness.
