JULIEN NOHL
LIVE BETTER WITH LEBER DISEASE
An orphan disease, an association
Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) is a genetic disease causing degeneration of ganglion cells, which manifests in the retina of the eye. The mutation of the genetic code of mitochondria leads to abnormalities. Deprived of energy, the cells can no longer correctly transmit information to the brain. And although the entire body is impregnated with the genetic defect, it is in the ganglion cells of the retina that the disease manifests itself...
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The story of Julien Secheyron, Chair of the Association
One morning of October 2014, Julien, 37, was told that he was going to lose his sight... in three months.
He has just triggered a rare genetic disease for which there is no treatment. Soon, objects begin to escape him, faces, to fade away. The fall is dizzying. Julien has become what is called "visually impaired", he no longer perceives the world except through the bottom of a bottle...
Julien NOHL
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