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Retinitis pigmentosa is an inherited, degenerative eye disease and is a form of retinal dystrophy. It is also an unpredictable, unstable disease, meaning that some people have symptoms (vision impairment, blindness) from birth, while others don't get symptoms till much later in life.

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