Hereditary Retinal Dystrophies: Current Scientific Knowledge

Hereditary retinal dystrophies are a heterogeneous group of inherited diseases characterized by involvement different layers the retina, most often complex pigment epithelium (RPE) – photoreceptors and cause severe visual impairment loss night vision, field, colour vision acuity in initial stages lead to progressive function altering anatomy retina.
 The development medical science technology has led introduction new, increasingly sophisticated methods for early diagnosis these electrophysiological studies have become more informative. Together with computer automated perimetry, optical coherence tomography (OCT), angio-OCT, fluorescein angiography (FA), fundus autofluorescence (FAF) adaptive optics, they allow very accurate topographical localization defect. And along advances genetics, optogenetics, molecular biology, biochemistry regenerative medicine, provide better understanding mechanism increase therapeutic opportunities.
 treatment many is still problematic, but because them severely disabling individual, scientists' efforts focused on finding an appropriate therapy. For diseases, there clinical trials worldwide, results some quite encouraging, effective therapies currently incurable expected be introduced near future.
 purpose this study analyze scientific knowledge, as well opportunities that being experimented date.