Open AccessUnilateral retinitis pigmentosa: case report
Author(s) -
Ricardo Evangelista Marrocos de Aragão,
Iêda Maria Alexandre Barreira,
Ariane Sá Vieira Bastos,
Gustavo José Arruda Mendes Carneiro,
Talles Peterson Cavalcante Oriá
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
revista de medicina da ufc/revista de medicina da universidade federal do ceará
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2447-6595
pISSN - 0100-1302
DOI - 10.20513/2447-6595.2015v55n2p54-58
Subject(s) - retinitis pigmentosa , medicine , ophthalmology , etiology , retinitis , dystrophy , optometry , retinal , pathology , virology , virus , human cytomegalovirus
Unilateral retinitis pigmentosa (URP) is a rare tapetoretinal dystrophy affecting only one eye. Criteria are necessary to make a correct diagnosis of URP: exclude all infective etiologies, check that the clinical signs of retinitis are present in the affected eye and the total absence of any signs or symptoms of retinitis pigmentosa in the fellow eye. Electroretinogram (ERG) and electro-oculogram (EOG) are useful for the correct diagnosis. In this paper we report one case.