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A cure for retinitis pigmentosa has not been developed yet but there are promising treatment options for people who want to stop or slow the vision impairments associated with this condition. If you have been diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, depending on what part of the world you live in, you’ll either be told you have to live with the ever increasing vision problems or you’ll be told there is a treatment retinitis pigmentosa available.

Anyone suffering from this degenerative condition knows that symptoms typically start when they are young adults,first with night blindness, progressing to tunnel vision. Imagine being told that there’s nothing that can be done even though total blindness is a possibility. It’s seems impossible that there is no treatment retinitis pigmentosa when there are treatments available to slow nearly every other disease. If there is any chance at all that one form of hereditary blindness can be prevented, people should be told about it.

Most of the research into retinitis pigmentosa (RP) in the mainstream medical societies has been devoted to identifying the genes responsible for this condition. While literally hundreds of mutations have been identified in the genes that cause RP, no effective treatment has been developed yet despite the prevalence of this condition.

There are treatments being done in several countries outside of North America that show promising results yet unless people suffering from retinitis pigmentosa go online and search for a phrase like treatment retinitis pigmentosa in Cuba, they will never know all their options. Cuba’s efforts to stop this disease have been remarkable but not surprising as Cuba is known for the quality of their health care. There have been many instances where patients of Cuban hospitals and clinics have fully recovered their vision, most improve their vision, and a few see no change in their vision.