title: [The relations of morphological and functional changes in children with retinal dystrophy disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To characterize the correlation between functional and morphological changes in the retina in the retinal dystrophies in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  In the group of six patients with selected types of retinal dystrophies was analysed the morphological findings obtained by the Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and their correlation with the electrophysiological findings.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Typical morphological retinal changes visualised by OCT were confirmed in all examined patients and were in correlation with progressive loss of visual function (decrease of visual acuity, constriction of visual field or scotomas in visual field, colour vision defect, nyctalopia) and abnormal values of the electrophysiological findings.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Optical coherence tomography and electrophysiological methods are essential in approaching patient with tapetoretinal dystrophies. Correlation of these findings enables us to make diagnose easier, to understand better the dynamic of the morfological and functional changes in these patients. It can also be implicated as prognostic indicators for visual progression in patients with retinal dystrophy and also in prevention by means of genetic methods.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Porubanová
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gerinec
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bušányová
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D058499:Retinal Dystrophies / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D041623:Tomography, Optical Coherence / Q000379:methods*; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014794:Visual Fields