Electroretinography

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Contents 1 Indications 2 Procedure 3 More General Terms 4 References

Indications

• inherited retinal disease

• retinitis pigmentosa
• retinitis punctata albescens
• Leber's congenital amaurosis
• choroideremia
• gyrate atrophy of the retina & choroid
• Goldman-Favre syndrome
• congenital stationary night blindness
• X-linked juvenile retinoschisis
• achromatopsia
• cone dystrophy
• Usher Syndrome

• other retinal disease

• diabetic retinopathy
• ischemic retinopathies including

• central retinal vein occlusion
• retinal branch vein occlusion
• sickle cell retinopathy
• toxic retinopathy

• Plaquenil
• Vigabatrin

• retinal detachment

• eye injury

• vitreous hemorrhage

• especially useful in conditions where the fundus cannot be visualized

Procedure

• measures electrical responses of retina
• electrodes are usually placed on the cornea & the skin near the eye
• during a recording, the patient's eyes are exposed to standardized stimuli & the resulting signal is displayed & recorded
• signals are measured in microvolts or nanovolts

More General Terms

• clinical procedure

References

1. Wikipedia: Electroretinography [1]

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