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The Eye Care Support Pathway is a new framework to ensure patients have timely access to information, advice and support throughout their eye care journey.

X-linked inheritance means that the faulty gene is located on the X chromosome, the larger of the two sex chromosomes.

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Cataracts occur fairly frequently and at a relatively early age within the Retina UK community of people with inherited retinal conditions. A question that comes up over and over again is whether or not to have cataract surgery.

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Autoimmune diseases are quite distinct from inherited retinal dystrophies.

There are about 125 million rod and cone cells within the retina that act as the eye's light receptors.

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