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Multifocal Electroretinograms
Published on: December 4, 2011
Multifocal visual evoked potentials to cone specific stimuli in patients with retinitis pigmentosa
K Holopigian1, S M Shuwairi, V C Greenstein
1Department of Ophthalmology, New York University School of Medicine, BEL 5N15, 462 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016, USA. kh19@nyu.edu
Abstract:
Our aim was to determine whether patients with retinitis pigmentosa show differences in L- and M-cone multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) responses that are eccentricity dependent, as has been shown for control subjects. Second, we compared the losses for mfVEPs to losses on achromatic visual field and multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) measures in the patients. Monocular mfVEPs were recorded to a pattern reversing display that modulated only the L- or M-cones. Also, standard automated achromatic visual fields and mfERGs were obtained. For the control subjects, the ratio of L-cone to M-cone mfVEP amplitudes increased as a function of retinal eccentricity. For the patients, the ratio did not vary with eccentricity. For all measures, responses were least affected for the first ring (central 2.4 degrees ) and most affected for the third ring (11.6 degrees - 44.4 degrees ). For the first ring, mfERG amplitudes were more impaired than were the mfVEPs or the visual field thresholds. For most of the patients, there was local response correspondence among our measures of visual function.
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