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Congenital stationary night blindness
Disease definition
Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) refers to a non-progressive group of retinal disorders characterized by night or dim light vision disturbance or delayed dark adaptation, poor visual acuity (ranging from 20/30 to 20/200), myopia (ranging from low (-0.25 diopters [D] to -4.75 D) to high (≥-10.00 D)), nystagmus, strabismus, normal color vision and fundus abnormalities.
ORPHA:215
Classification level: Disorder- Synonym(s):
- Congenital essential nyctalopia
- Prevalence: Unknown
- Inheritance: Autosomal dominant or Autosomal recessive or X-linked recessive
- Age of onset: Neonatal
- ICD-10: H53.6
- ICD-11: 9D45
- OMIM: 163500 257270 300071 310500 610427 610444 610445 613216 613830 614565 615058 616389 617024
- UMLS: C0339535
- MeSH: C536122
- GARD: 3995
- MedDRA: -
A summary on this disease is available in Deutsch (2017) Español (2017) Français (2017) Italiano (2017) Nederlands (2017) Polski (2014, pdf)
Detailed information
General public
- Article for general public
- Español (2016) - GuíaSalud
Guidelines
- Clinical practice guidelines
- Español (2017, pdf) - Ministerio de Sanidad
Disease review articles
- Clinical genetics review
- English (2019) - GeneReviews


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