Abstract

Effective treatment of the complications resulting from an ischemic condition such as central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO) may depend on the accuracy of early diagnosis. In CRVO, relative ischemia of a significant proportion of retina has been associated with ocular morbidity in the form of rubeosis iridis and neovascular glaucoma (1,2,3). Fluorescein angiography (FA) has been used routinely to determine the degree of retinal ischemia in CRVO as in other occlusive vascular diseases of the retina. However, FA interpretation, based on non-quantitative visual judgements, may lack sufficient sensitivity to detect early ischemic changes (4). The purposes of this report are: 1) to characterize the ERG parameters for CRVO and fellow eyes as to their ability to identify functionally distinct sub-groups, and 2) to compare the ERG characterization of CRVO eyes to a variety of FA caracteristics.

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