Last Updated: 09/18/2023
Summary: The My Retina Tracker® Registry is sponsored by the Foundation Fighting Blindness and is for people affected by one of the rare inherited retinal degenerative diseases studied by the Foundation. It is a patient-initiated registry accessible via a secure on-line portal at www.MyRetinaTracker.org. Affected individuals who register are guided to create a profile that captures their perspective on the...
Summary: This study aims to understand the state of onset of NLSD(neutral lipid storage disease) / TGCV(triglyceride deposit cardiovasculopathy) worldwide, background information of affected patients, and natural history of the disease, as well as exploring the prognostic factors and assessing the efficacy of disease-specific treatment.
Summary: Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH) is a monogenic autosomal dominant disease also known as Autosomal Dominant Hypercholesterolemia - ADH) that leads to dramatically increased levels of Low Density Lipoprotein (LDL) and total cholesterol associated to tendon xanthomas, xanthelasma, corneal arcus, premature atherosclerosis and to an increased risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) and myocardial infa...
Summary: Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is a multifactorial disease affecting a quarter of the world population. Pathological accumulation of fat, into the hepatocytes, is the first hit and is due to altered hepatic and extrahepatic lipogenesis, lipolysis and lipophagy of the large lipid droplets. Lipophagy plays a key role in the onset of NAFLD, in the autolysosomes, small droplets of fat are c...
Last Updated: 09/18/2023