title: Congenital stationary night blindness.
abstract: Congenital stationary night blindness (CSNB) seems to be a very rare condition in Scandinavia. From Denmark a 7-generation family with the dominant form was published in 1909, and one family with the X-linked recessive form was reported from Norway. On going through the files of the National Eye Clinic for Visually Impaired, 7 patients were found (1 dominant, 4 X-linked recessive, 1 simplex case and 1 autosomal recessive). Including anamnestic information on relatives, 17 patients had a diagnosis of CSNB. The clinical findings in these cases are reported with stress on alteration in ERG, dark adaptation and the optic discs. The loss of oscillatory potentials in a carrier of CSNB is described. The provisional findings seem to indicate that 3 genetic variants are present in the Danish population. The real prevalence is estimated considerably higher than 17 out of 5 million.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D003623:Dark Adaptation; D003718:Denmark; D004596:Electroretinography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009755:Night Blindness / Q000151:congenital* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000235:genetics; D010375:Pedigree; D014794:Visual Fields