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Leber, Theodor (1840 - 1917)

Leber's congenital amaurosis

  • autosoaml recessive blindness
  • severe visual dysfunction
  • progressive retinal atrophy
  • cataract
  • keratoconus
Leber's optic atrophy
  • mitochondrial inherited diseases
  • bilateral central visual loss in young adulthood affecting mainly males

 
Curriculum Vitae

Nationality:

German ophthalmologist
Born in Karlsruhe
Undergraduate:
Medical degree in 1862
Physiology degree in Vienna
Postgraduate:
Junior doctor to von Graefe in Berlin 1867 - 1870
Professor ophthalmologist, Gottingen 1871
Director of Eye Clinic, Heidelberg 1890 - 1910
Publication:
Leber T (1869) Uber retinitis pigmentosa und angeborene amaurose. Graefes Arch Augenheilk 15:1
Leber T (1871) Uber hereditare und congenital-angleegte Schnervenleiden. Albrecht von Graefes Arch Ophthlamol 17: 249
Leber T (1916) Die Krankheiten der Netzhaut. In: Graefes Saemisch Hand Gesamte Augenheilk, 2nd edn. p 1076
 
 
 
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