Ocular Disease III: Lecture 3: Electrodiagnostics Flashcards
1
Q
- ERG
- VEP
- mfERG
- EOG
- PERG
A
- Checks Retinal Function Health a. ERG response mostly comes from Photoreceptors and Bipolar cells (OUTER RETINA)
b. *Most important test in her opinion - Checks Health of VISUAL SYSTEM
- Health of Foveal Cones
- Health of RPE
- Health of Ganglion/Amacrine Cells (non linear and Spiking)
2
Q
ERG Wave
- the First Dip (A-WAVE): Due to what cells?
- The bumps in the middle
- The peak?
A
- Photoreceptors
- Oscillatory Potentials (AMACRINES)
- B-Wave (BIPOLARS, GLIA)
3
Q
Which wave would be SLOWER in time but LARGER in size?
A
- SCOTOPIC WAVE
4
Q
How is the test done?
A
- Dilate
- Ground Electrode attached to EAR
- Dark Adapt
- Insert Lenses
- Run both eyes at ONE (SCOTOPIC TESTING)
- LIGHT ADAPT
- Run PHOTOPIC TESTING
- Check Fundus
5
Q
When performing the ERG, if you were using a DIM LIGHT, what wave(s) would you expect on the graph?
A
- ONLY a B WAVE! (so not big enough to get an A Wave)
6
Q
Everyone w/a NORMAL PERG, will have a PEAK when
A
- At 50 msec (P50) (stimulus is 50% light and 50% dark at every moment)
7
Q
- When is a PERG good to use on a patient?
2. What other diseases?
A
- When they can’t do a VF
- NERVE TOXICITY, (Glaucoma…pts that cant do other functional tests)
* Usually used in Conjunction w/a VEP!
8
Q
VEP
- What Electrical Potential does it measure?
- Check sizes are about what?
a. Gives response of what? - Does it localize the problem?
A
- At The OCCIPITAL CORTEX created by stimulus to the RETINA, especially the fovea. (Electrodes on the back of the head)
- 20/200 and 20/50 (pt fixates in the center)
a. of the ENTIRE PATHWAY - NO! It just tells us that there’s a problem somewhere.
9
Q
EOG
- Dark Trough = ?
- Normal ARDEN Ratio is usually WHAT? (KNOW!)
- She said to go with what Arden Ratio?
- Patient looks back and forth..(eye acts like a battery, w/+ and - electrode on each side of the eye)
A
- ARDEN Ratio
- usually greater than 2/1
- 1.75! (Ratio from the number you get in the light, and the number you get in the dark)
10
Q
1st Thing to ask EVERY PATIENT before doing an ERG?
A
- Is it PROGRESSIVE or STATIONARY
11
Q
Stationary: Examples
A
- Born w/bad vision or early on has poor vision and stays the same
CSNB, Oguchi Disease,
Fundus Albipunctatus
Fleck Retina of Kandori
Achromatopsia
and LEBERS (Congenital Amarosis)
12
Q
CSNB
- Genetic? (think who)
- What happens to the ERG?
a. ERG will be what?
A
- X-linked (think BOYS more likely)
* Normal Looking Retina (No RPE Changes)
* No photoreceptor to Bipolar Signaling - Decreased B Wave (Bipolar Cell), but Intact A wave (Photoreceptors)
* How they’re diagnoses
a. Will be Electro Negative
13
Q
Lebers
- Not the same as what?
- Blind since when?
- Genetics?
- What does the retina look like?
- ERG?
A
- Lebers Optic Atrophy
- from Birth (FC to LP)
- Autosomal Recessive
- Normal, pigment changes w/aging (starts normal but starts to change as they get older)
- No/little measurable ERG
14
Q
Progressive Retinal Dystrophies
- What one’s are Central? (5)
A
- Cone Dystrophy
- Stargardts
- Best Disease
- Pattern Dystrophies
- Macular Dystrophies
15
Q
2 other questions to ask?
A
- dark or light problem, or both?
a. Scotomas…? - Who else in your family has this?