How to Use retinitis pigmentosa in a Sentence

retinitis pigmentosa

noun

• Shaw was nearly blind from retinitis pigmentosa during the recording and played by ear and memory.
  — Russell Contreras, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2020
• The patient in the study was diagnosed at age 18 with an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes the photoreceptor cells to die.
  — Caroline Seydel, Forbes, 14 June 2021
• Worldwide, more than 225 people with retinitis pigmentosa have been fitted with the Argus II.
  — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2017
• Razor that Burke, who was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa at age 4 and lost almost all of her sight at 14, was able to successfully shave her legs.
  — Rachel Desantis, PEOPLE.com, 29 June 2021
• John Diakakis, the manager of the family business, has retinitis pigmentosa and has been legally blind since birth.
  — The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
• The patients all had advanced cases of retinitis pigmentosa, which affects more than two million people world-wide.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• Christopher and his sister, Dina, were born with retinitis pigmentosa, eye disorders that left them legally blind at birth.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
• At 13 years old, Umstead was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that involves the breakdown and loss of cells in the retina.
  — Jason Duaine Hahn, PEOPLE.com, 9 Mar. 2018
• Tatel was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 1957 as a teen attending Montgomery Blair High School.
  — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
• Researchers hope the work will someday yield transplantable retinas for people with diseases like retinitis pigmentosa .
  — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
• He was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic disorder that causes vision loss, at the age of 15, around the time his parents were divorcing.
  — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2019
• Danelle began losing her vision at the age of 13 and doctors later diagnosed her with retinitis pigmentosa, according to Cosmpolitan.com.
  — Eileen Reslen, Good Housekeeping, 25 Sep. 2018
• That’s how many people in the U.S. are affected with retinitis pigmentosa, research estimates.
  — Robert Hart, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
• Lemay, who had never heard of retinitis pigmentosa before her children's diagnosis, explains that the disease—which slowly destroys the cells in the retina—has already begun to take its toll on her kids' vision.
  — Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 23 Sep. 2022
• Wheatcroft was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic eye disorder.
  — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 2 Sep. 2020
• Edith Lemay and Sebastian Pelletier have four children, and three of them have been diagnosed with a genetic disease called retinitis pigmentosa.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 3 Nov. 2022
• Bernstein, who has been visually impaired since birth due to a genetic disorder called retinitis pigmentosa, is blind.
  — Asma Ali Zain, sun-sentinel.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• It has also been found to slow the decline of retinal function in those with retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that can lead to blindness, according to researchers from Harvard.
  — Dailyburn, Health.com, 8 Oct. 2014
• Courtesy of Sandi Wassmer Sandi Wassmer was 15 years old when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa.
  — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023
• Certain forms of dementia, ALS, Parkinson’s, and the degenerative eye disease retinitis pigmentosa, fall under the same umbrella, along with other diseases, all caused by some quirk in a protein.
  — Isabella Cueto, STAT, 2 May 2022
• The gene therapy could target Stargardt’s disease or retinitis pigmentosa as well, Mohanty said.
  — Ashton Nichols, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
• Nacuity is in the clinical stages of developing treatments for retinitis pigmentosa, a group of genetic eye diseases, and other eye diseases caused by oxidative stress.
  — Irene Wright, Dallas News, 15 June 2022
• Takahashi and her colleagues are now targeting patients with retinitis pigmentosa who are almost completely blind.
  — Science, 3 Dec. 2020
• Reeves has an eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa which dramatically limits her field of vision.
  — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 20 July 2019
• Meyers, 26, has Usher syndrome, a genetic disorder that causes deafness or hearing loss and the eye disease retinitis pigmentosa that affects vision and worsens over time.
  — David Williams, CNN, 21 July 2021
• Evans was a filmmaker on the rise even though his sight had begun to deteriorate in 1996 on account of a rare genetic (and degenerative) disease called retinitis pigmentosa that left him with something akin to tunnel vision.
  — Nick Schager, chicagotribune.com, 18 Sep. 2019
• According to DTx Pharma’s website, its most advanced program in the eye arena targets a disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which is often inherited.
  — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Mar. 2021
• Editas Medicine of Cambridge, Mass., is testing Crispr gene editing in retinitis pigmentosa patients with a different gene mutation.
  — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
• This hydrogel also slows down the progression of retinitis pigmentosa, delaying vision loss.
  — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• Venture investors have provided $100 million in fresh funding to Ray Therapeutics, a biotech company seeking to restore vision in people with the rare blinding disease retinitis pigmentosa.
  — Brian Gormley, WSJ, 16 May 2023

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024