Stargardt disease
Common Name(s)
Stargardt disease, Stargardt macular dystrophies
Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
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Advocacy and Support Organizations
Condition Specific Organizations
Following organizations serve the condition "Stargardt disease" for support, advocacy or research.
The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments, and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
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Scientific Literature
Articles from the PubMed Database
Research articles describe the outcome of a single study. They are the published results of original research.
The terms "Stargardt disease" returned 92 free, full-text research articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal:
Choroidal thickness (CT) evaluation with EDI-OCT in Stargardt Disease (STGD), considering its possible association with some clinical features of the disease.
Journal: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.. 2017 10;58(12):5227-5236.
To compare morphologic changes on en face images derived from wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography (ssOCT) to hypo- and hyperautofluorescent (hypoAF, hyperAF) areas on short-wavelength autofluorescence (SW-AF), and near-infrared (NIR)-AF in recessive Stargardt disease (STGD1).
Journal: Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci.. 2017 07;58(9):3608-3615.
To assess reliability and repeatability of cone density measurements by using confocal and (nonconfocal) split-detector adaptive optics scanning light ophthalmoscopy (AOSLO) imaging. It will be determined whether cone density values are significantly different between modalities in ...
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Reviews from the PubMed Database
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The terms "Stargardt disease" returned 3 free, full-text review articles on human participants.
First 3 results:
Journal: Br J Ophthalmol. 2017 Jan;101(1):25-30.
Stargardt disease (STGD1; MIM 248200) is the most prevalent inherited macular dystrophy and is associated with disease-causing sequence variants in the gene ABCA4 Significant advances have been made over the last 10 years in our understanding of both the clinical and molecular features ...
Journal: Adv. Exp. Med. Biol.. 2010 ;664():333-40.
Stargardt disease (STGD1) is an autosomal-recessively inherited condition often associated with mutations in ABCA4 and characterized by accumulation of autofluorescent lipofuscin deposits in the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). Non-invasive imaging techniques including fundus autofluorescence ...
Journal: Br J Ophthalmol. 2009 Oct;93(10):1359-64.
To determine the carrier frequency of ABCA4 mutations in order to achieve an insight into the prevalence of autosomal recessive Stargardt disease (arSTGD) in the Spanish population.
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Symptoms, Diagnosis, and Treatment
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