[Electroretinography in the diagnosis and monitoring of treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration: Communication 1].
The pathophysiological mechanisms responsible for the development of choroidal neovascularization (CNV) in age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) still remain to be little studied and clinical electrophysiology that has a wide spectrum of objective studies plays a great role in the assessment of regularities of retinal functional changes in this disease. Recording of different types of electroretinograms (ERG) from the ISCEV standards and multifocal ERG is most extensively used to characterize CNV. The review considers the pattern of ERG changes in normal physiological aging and the specific features of suppressed retinal electrogenesis in neovascular ARMD. The diagnostic capacities of different electroretinographic methods, their disadvantages and limits in the evaluation of retinal functions in patients with CNV are compared.
Zueva
M V
MV
Tsapenko
I V
IV
Riabina
M V
MV
Grinchenko
M I
MI
Neroeva
N V
NV
D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004596:Electroretinography / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012160:Retina / Q000503:physiopathology*