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 patients all had advanced cases of retinitis pigmentosa, which affects more than two million people world-wide.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 2021
  • Wheatcroft was born with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic eye disorder.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 2 Sep. 2020
  • Researchers hope the work will someday yield transplantable retinas for people with diseases like retinitis pigmentosa .
    — Veronique Greenwood, Discover Magazine, 8 Apr. 2011
  • Christopher and his sister, Dina, were born with retinitis pigmentosa, eye disorders that left them legally blind at birth.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2021
  • 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
  • Reeves has an eye condition known as retinitis pigmentosa which dramatically limits her field of vision.
    — Charisse Jones, USA TODAY, 20 July 2019
  • John Diakakis, the manager of the family business, has retinitis pigmentosa and has been legally blind since birth.
    — The New Yorker, 16 June 2022
  • Takahashi and her colleagues are now targeting patients with retinitis pigmentosa who are almost completely blind.
    — Science, 3 Dec. 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
  • Because of a genetic reason— A condition called retinitis pigmentosa, uh huh.
    — Jason Kehe, WIRED, 10 Apr. 2024
  • This hydrogel also slows down the progression of retinitis pigmentosa, delaying vision loss.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • Worldwide, more than 225 people with retinitis pigmentosa have been fitted with the Argus II.
    — NBC News, 3 Oct. 2017
  • The gene therapy could target Stargardt’s disease or retinitis pigmentosa as well, Mohanty said.
    — Ashton Nichols, Dallas News, 3 June 2020
  • At 4, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that leads to eventual blindness.
    — Laura Trujillo, USA Today, 14 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • Her mother suffers from a rare genetic eye condition called retinitis pigmentosa, which led to progressive vision loss and her mother’s eventual blindness.
    — Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2025
  • 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
  • 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
  • Turner, who grew up on Indy's northside, was diagnosed around four years ago with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare genetic disorder that slowly limits field of vision.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Mar. 2024
  • While in graduate school, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that causes vision to deteriorate slowly over time.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2023
  • Developing a hydrogel based on hyaluronic acid that responds to inflammation is a promising approach for treating retinitis pigmentosa.
    — William A. Haseltine, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • In retinitis pigmentosa and similar hereditary retinal disorders, the photoreceptors break down and stop working.
    — Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 24 May 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
  • 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
  • Children with the gene mutation often are diagnosed at an early age with disorders such as Leber congenital amaurosis or retinitis pigmentosa.
    — Paige Winfield Cunningham, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • Tatel was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa in 1957 as a teen attending Montgomery Blair High School.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2021
  • Courtesy of Sandi Wassmer Sandi Wassmer was 15 years old when she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa.
    — Orianna Rosa Royle, Fortune, 2 Mar. 2023

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