Inherited retinal diseases: therapeutics, clinical trials and end points—a review

M Georgiou, K Fujinami… - Clinical & Experimental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of
disorders characterised by photoreceptor degeneration or dysfunction. These disorders …

Promises and pitfalls of evaluating photoreceptor-based retinal disease with adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO)

N Wynne, J Carroll, JL Duncan - Progress in retinal and eye research, 2021 - Elsevier
Adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) allows visualization of the living
human retina with exquisite single-cell resolution. This technology has improved our …

Beneficial effects on vision in patients undergoing retinal gene therapy for choroideremia

K Xue, JK Jolly, AR Barnard, A Rudenko, AP Salvetti… - Nature medicine, 2018 - nature.com
Retinal gene therapy is increasingly recognized as a novel molecular intervention that has
huge potential in treating common causes of blindness, the majority of which have a genetic …

Efficacy and safety of retinal gene therapy using adeno-associated virus vector for patients with choroideremia: a randomized clinical trial

MD Fischer, GA Ochakovski, B Beier, IP Seitz… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Choroideremia (CHM) is a rare, degenerative, genetic retinal disorder resulting
from mutation of theCHMgene, leading to an absence of functional ras-associated binding …

Choroideremia: from genetic and clinical phenotyping to gene therapy and future treatments

A Mitsios, AM Dubis… - Therapeutic advances in …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Choroideremia is an X-linked inherited chorioretinal dystrophy leading to blindness by late
adulthood. Choroideremia is caused by mutations in the CHM gene which encodes Rab …

Adeno-associated viral gene therapy for inherited retinal disease

T Ong, ME Pennesi, DG Birch, BL Lam… - Pharmaceutical …, 2019 - Springer
Inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) are a group of rare, heterogenous eye disorders caused by
gene mutations that result in degeneration of the retina. There are currently limited treatment …

Challenges associated with ellipsoid zone intensity measurements using optical coherence tomography

KE Lee, H Heitkotter, J Carroll - Translational vision science & …, 2021 - tvst.arvojournals.org
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) allows noninvasive visualization of individual retinal
layers and has become a mainstay in the diagnosis and management of a wide range of …

Choroideremia: the endpoint endgame

MEA Abdalla Elsayed, LJ Taylor, AS Josan… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Choroideremia is an X-linked retinal degeneration resulting from the progressive, centripetal
loss of photoreceptors and choriocapillaris, secondary to the degeneration of the retinal …

[HTML][HTML] Retinal dystrophies and the road to treatment: clinical requirements and considerations

M Talib, CJF Boon - Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, 2020 - Elsevier
Retinal dystrophies (RDs) comprise relatively rare but devastating causes of progressive
vision loss. They represent a spectrum of diseases with marked genetic and clinical …

Quantifying the rate of ellipsoid zone loss in Stargardt disease

CX Cai, JG Light, JT Handa - American journal of ophthalmology, 2018 - Elsevier
Purpose To determine a reliable method of using the ellipsoid zone (EZ) on optical
coherence tomography (OCT) to track disease progression in Stardgardt disease (STGD) …