Hereditary Blindness And Deafness: The Race For Sight And Sound [Paperback]

Sensory Limitations of Blindness and Deafness will present inherited sensory limitations. It will describe the symptoms associated with a variety of inherited eye diseases such as color blindness, cataracts, glaucoma, retinopathy, corneal disease, amblyopia, and blindness. It will also describe a large class of inherited diseases that result in hearing impairment or deafness. The book will describe how a definitive diagnosis of inherited eye disease is made by ophthalmological testing, documentation of family history, and genetic analysis. It will detail how inherited hearing disease is diagnosed by hearing tests and physical examination followed by genetic analysis. The book will also describe how inherited sensory limitations can be diagnosed by prenatal and newborn genetic analysis. The book will discuss additional health issues that can arise for someone living with inherited sensory limitations, such as physical limitations, emotional problems, and secondary medical conditions. It will describe how inherited sensory limitations are caused by a mutation in a wide variety of genes found throughout the human genome. It will explain how inherited blindness can be autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, or X-linked. It will describe examples of inherited eye disease that are caused by mutations in single genes, mutations in several genes, or from genetic syndromes. The book will also describe how hearing impairment or deafness can be caused by mutation in a large variety of single genes or combinations of genes, resulting in patterns of inheritance including autosomal recessive, autosomal dominant, X-linked, and Y-linked. The book will explore genetic and environmental factors that affect patients with inherited sensory limitations. It will describe examples of inherited sensory limitations that are affected by nutrition, opportunistic infections, and interactions with the protein products of other genes. It will describe the available treatments for patients with l3(