Retinitis pigmentosa and its therapeutic updates

Authors

  • Juan Alberto Viteri Rodríguez
  • Karen Daniela Salazar Pullutacsi
  • Gabriela Alexandra Villacis Paredes

Keywords:

photoreceptors, nyctalopia, gene therapy, retinitis pigmentosa, optogenetics

Abstract

Retinitis pigmentosa is a group of neurodegenerative ocular pathologies that affect the retina causing a progressive loss of vision, where patients usually lose night vision during adolescence, side vision in adulthood and central vision in old age due to the loss of photoreceptor cells. The aim of this literature review was to provide an updated overview on therapeutic advances in retinitis pigmentosa by searching for information in articles published within the last 5 years in meta-search engines such as Epistemonikos and Tripdatabase and databases such as Medline, PubMed, Science Direct and Google Scholar. As results of this research, new treatments such as luxturna, optogenetics, CRISPR/Cas9, in vitro pluripotent cells, antisense oligonucleotides, laser therapy and transcorneal electrical stimulation (TES) were analyzed. It was concluded that there are several therapies that are currently being developed that mark the beginning of a future for these patients who have lost vision due to RP, however, the therapies investigated at the moment have several imitations preventing their generalization to all patients with RP.

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Published

2024-12-05

How to Cite

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Viteri Rodríguez JA, Salazar Pullutacsi KD, Villacis Paredes GA. Retinitis pigmentosa and its therapeutic updates. Rev Cubana Inv Bioméd [Internet]. 2024 Dec. 5 [cited 2025 Aug. 2];43. Available from: https://revibiomedica.sld.cu/index.php/ibi/article/view/3597