Inherited Retinal and Choroidal Dystrophies

Name: Inherited Retinal and Choroidal Dystrophies
Uploaded: 2015-07-30T00:00:00+00:00
Description: Daniel Chung, DO, a senior investigator at the Scheie Eye Institute at Penn Medicine, offers an overview of the inherited retinal and choroidal dystrophies, and discusses their diagnosis and pathology.

This video provides an overview of the inherited retinal and choroidal dystrophies, and is presented by Daniel Chung, DO of the Scheie Eye Institute at Penn Medicine. In this synopsis, Dr. Chung discusses the pathophysiology, variants, and diagnosis of this family of currently untreatable disorders.

This video was produced for The Scheie Eye Institute Best Practices in Ophthalmology series by CMEinfo, a registered trademark of Oakstone Publishing, LLC, Birmingham, AL . The complete video may be ordered here

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July 30, 2015

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