Abstract

Studies of electrooculogram testing of patients with age-related drusen and macular degeneration (aka senile macular degeneration, or SMD) have shown differing results. Of the two largest studies, one¹ showed most patients with severe SMD to have low Arden ratios and most patients with drusen to have normal Arden ratios, and the other² showed one-third of patients with drusen and SMD to have abnormal EOGs, with no correlation to severity of the clinical picture. These studies were performed using a non-ganzfeld type of stimulation. A recent study by us³ of twenty-one patients with drusen and SMD, using ganzfeld EOG testing, found that all patients had normal Arden ratios.

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