Abstract
The early receptor potential (ERP) was measured and examined in 41 fellow eyes of 41 patients under 60 years of age with unilateral, idiopathic retinal detachment, who were free from myopia over -8 diopters and myopic chorioretinal atrophy. Eighty-six eyes of 50 normal subjects, comparable in age and in refractometric findings, served as normal controls. Mean ERP amplitudes in the group of 19 fellow eyes with some degenerative changes in the peripheral retina of the patients were, statistically, greatly decreased at the 1% level of significance, as compared with the normal controls. Even in the group of 22 fellow eyes with no appreciable retinal abnormalities, the mean ERP amplitude was significantly decreased at the 5% level, as compared with normal.
Based upon these ERP findings, the possibility of a “predisposition” to retinal detachment and the pathogenesis of this condition are discussed.
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Tamai, A. (1978). Studies on the Early Receptor Potential in the Human Eye. In: François, J., De Rouck, A., Pearlman, J.T., Kelsey, J. (eds) Electrodiagnosis, Toxic Agents and Vision. Documenta Ophthalmologica Proceedings Series, vol 15. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9957-2_44
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