What Is Stargardt Disease? - American Academy of Ophthalmology
2024年9月3日 · Stargardt disease is an eye disease that causes vision loss in children and young adults. It is an inherited disease, meaning it is passed on to children from their parents. Stargardt disease is often called juvenile macular dystrophy (sometimes called …
Stargardt disease - Wikipedia
Stargardt disease is the most common inherited single-gene retinal disease. [1] In terms of the first description of the disease, [2] it follows an autosomal recessive inheritance pattern, which has been later linked to bi-allelic ABCA4 gene variants (STGD1).
Stargardt Disease - National Eye Institute
2024年12月4日 · Stargardt disease is an inherited disorder that usually causes vision loss in childhood or adolescence. It is also called Stargardt macular dystrophy, juvenile macular degeneration, or fundus flavimaculatus.
Stargardt Disease/Fundus Flavimaculatus - EyeWiki
Stargardt disease (STGD) is the most common childhood recessively inherited macular dystrophy.
Stargardt Disease: Diagnosis, Causes & Treatment - Cleveland Clinic
2022年10月13日 · Stargardt disease is a genetic eye condition that affects vision in the macula and causes you to lose vision over time. People with Stargardt disease have too much of a fatty yellow substance called lipofuscin.
Stargardt Disease (STGD) - American Academy of Ophthalmology
2017年8月21日 · Stargardt Disease (STGD) is most commonly caused by mutations in the ABCA4 gene located on chromosome 1 (OMIM 601691) and is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.
Stargardt Disease - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf
2024年1月8日 · Stargardt disease (STGD1) is the most common cause of juvenile macular dystrophy. Mutations in the adenosine triphosphate binding cassette transporter alpha 4 subunit (ABCA4) gene cause this condition and are inherited in an autosomal recessive pattern.
Stargardt Disease: Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
2024年10月22日 · Stargardt disease causes the accumulation of fatty material (lipofuscin) on the macula, resulting in poor central vision. Stargardt disease affects about 1 in 10,000 people in the United States. 2 The disease is inherited, meaning it's passed down from parents to offspring.
Diagnosis and Management of Stargardt Disease
2014年12月1日 · Stargardt disease is the most common juvenile macular dystrophy and a frequent heritable cause of central visual dysfunction in young patients. The prevalence of Stargardt disease is between 1:8,000 and 1:10,000. 1 Stargardt disease was first described in 1909 by Karl Stargardt.
Stargardt disease | About the Disease | GARD - Genetic and Rare ...
A rare ophthalmic disorder that is usually characterized by a progressive loss of central vision associated with irregular macular and perimacular yellow-white fundus flecks, and a so-called ''beaten bronze'' atrophic central macular lesion. Summary.