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REPORT OF A CASE OF RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA FOLLOW‐UP FROM 7 MONTHS TO 27 YEARS OF AGE
Author(s) -
ZETTERSTRÖM BIRGITTA
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1974.tb00387.x
Subject(s) - retinitis pigmentosa , medicine , ophthalmology , adaptation (eye) , optometry , pediatrics , psychology , retinal , neuroscience
A case of dominant retinitis pigmentosa (r.p.) is described in which the presumptive diagnosis of the condition was made when the patient was 7 months old, solely from the finding that the ERGs from both eyes were unrecordable, other characteristic ophthalmoscopic changes being absent. When the patient was 27 years old the ERGs of both eyes were still unrecordable and this together with the now established typical changes of the fundi, the abnormal shape of the dark adaptation curve and the characteristic field defects confirmed the earlier presumptive diagnosis of r.p.