title: Electroretinography combined with spectral domain optical coherence tomography to detect retinal damage in shaken baby syndrome.
abstract: In order to correlate anatomical changes with visual function in shaken baby syndrome, we performed electroretinography and spectral domain optical coherence tomography on a 2-month-old girl and a 9-month-old girl after the retinal hemorrhages absorbed. Both patients had significant abnormalities in spectral domain optical coherence tomography images of the macular area. The amplitudes of the focal macular electroretinograms were more severely decreased than those of the full-field electroretinograms. Combining spectral domain coherence tomography with focal macular electroretinograms might better estimate the functional damage to the macula in patients with shaken baby syndrome.
authors.affiliation: National Center for Child's Health and Development, Tokyo, Japan. nakayama-y@ncchd.go.jp
authors.forename: Yuri
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakayama
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yokoi
authors.forename: Nishina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sachiko
authors.forename: Makiko
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Okuyama
authors.forename: Noriyuki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Azuma
mesh_terms: D004596:Electroretinography / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012166:Retinal Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D038642:Shaken Baby Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*