Open AccessSUSPECTED CHIASMATIC PATHOLOGY IN PAZIENT AFFECTED BY ATYPICAL SECTOR RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA: THE IMPORTANCE OF CLINICAL AND STRUMENTAL VALUES
Author(s) -
Antali,
Patrizio Massimo,
Rosario Denaro,
Rossella Franceschini
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of the siena academy of sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2279-882X
pISSN - 2279-8811
DOI - 10.4081/jsas.2012.58.1
Subject(s) - retinitis pigmentosa , photophobia , medicine , ophthalmology , visual field , retinal
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is one of the most common hereditary retinal dystrophies and causes of visual impairment affecting all age groups. Sector retinitis pigmentosa is an atypical form of RP that is characterized by regionalized areas of bone spicule pigmentation, usually in the inferior quadrants of the retina. Tipically it presents symmetric and bilateral. Sector RP has a variable symptomatology: night vision decrease (nictalopia), photophobia, visual field constrinction, with partial or complete scotoma. However, any pazients may remain asimpthomatic until adulthood