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Living with LHON: Achieving your dreams in the dark
Linda Banks
eye disease, hereditary eye disease, LHON, mitochondrial disease, rare disease
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When Fabrizio Sottile went blind at the age of 17, he thought his dreams of becoming a world-class swimmer were over. But he wasn’t about to let Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) stand in his way, and he made his first appearance as part of Italy’s Paralympic team in 2016, aged 23.
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LHON in the family: living under the spectre of an hereditary eye disease
Linda Banks
eye disease, hereditary eye disease, LHON, LHON awareness, LHON Society, mitochondrial disease, patient perspective, patients, rare disease
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