J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.
1996 Jun;37(6):1090-1094.
A Case of Unilateral Retinitis Pigmentosa
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- 1Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Taegu, Korea.
Abstract
- Retinitis pigmentosa has been recognized as a symmetrical, bilateral, hereditary, tapetoretinal degeneration with night blindness, visual field loss, and abnormal ERG. Unilateral retinitis pigmentosa is a rather rare disease. Pedraglia described first reported a case of suspected unilateral retinitis pigmentosa in 1865. Francois and Verriest proposed the following four criteria of the unilateral retinitis pigmentosa: the presence of functional changes ophthalmoscopically typical primary pigmentary degeneration in the affected eye, the absence of a tapetoretinal dystrophy in the fellow eye with normal ERG over five years and exclusion of the inflammatory cause in the affected eye. We report a case of unilateral retinitis pigmentosa in 29 year-old female who has been followed for over five years.
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