Retinitis Pigmentosa

Question 1

Retinitis Pigmentosa:

How does it present before progressing to loss of central vision or blindness?

What type of inheritance does it have?

Answer 1

Night blindness

Usually autosomal dominant

Question 2

Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy:

Type of inheritance

Bi/unilateral

Do they have pain?

Age of onset?

What sex is it commoner in?

Answer 2

Mitochondrial inherited blindness

Bilateral

Painless

20s to 30s

Commoner in men