Pattern electroretinogram peak times as a clinical means of discriminating retinal from optic nerve disease

Fifty-two patients with unilateral or bilateral retinal or optic nerve disease exhibited abnormal peak times and/or amplitudes in the pattern electroretinogram. While this abnormality in patients with optic nerve diseases was confined to an amplitude reduction, 40% of the eyes with retinal diseases...

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Published in:Documenta ophthalmologica 1989-03, Vol.71 (3), p.307-320
Main Authors: LORENZ, R, DODT, E, HEIDER, W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Electroretinography
Evoked Potentials, Visual
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Middle Aged
Ophthalmology
Optic Nerve Diseases - diagnosis
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Retinal Diseases - diagnosis
Retinopathies
Visual Field Tests
Visual Fields
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Summary:Fifty-two patients with unilateral or bilateral retinal or optic nerve disease exhibited abnormal peak times and/or amplitudes in the pattern electroretinogram. While this abnormality in patients with optic nerve diseases was confined to an amplitude reduction, 40% of the eyes with retinal diseases exhibited additionally a peak time delay of the p and/or q component. We conclude that recording of pattern electroretinogram peak times provides an additional means to distinguish retinal from optic nerve diseases.
ISSN:0012-4486
1573-2622
DOI:10.1007/BF00170979