The effect of cataract surgery on blue-yellow and standard-pattern visual-evoked potentials
The effect of cataract surgery on blue-yellow and standard-pattern visual-evoked potentials
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DOI:
10.1007/s00417-014-2728-x
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发表时间:
2014-11-01
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2.7
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Mazinani, Babac
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作者:
Fuest, Matthias;Plange, Niklas;Mazinani, Babac
Blue-yellow visual-evoked potentials (BY-VEPs) may be used for diagnostics of functional ganglion cell damage in glaucoma and other ocular diseases. In this study we investigated the impact of lenticular opacities on BY- and standard pattern reversal VEPs by examining patients before and after cataract surgery.Eighteen patients with moderate cataract were included in a prospective study. Transient on/off isoluminant blue-yellow 2A degrees checks were used for short-wavelength stimulation (BY-VEP), transient large 1A degrees (M1) and small 0.25A degrees (M2) black-white checks for standard pattern reversal VEPs. VEPs were acquired before (24 A +/- 30 days) and after cataract surgery (14 A +/- 16 days). The contralateral eye was used as a control.Amplitude and latency of M1 and M2 peaks did not change significantly from before to after surgery. The amplitude of the BY-VEPs did not change significantly after cataract surgery (pre-surgery, -7.42 +/- 3.43 mu V, post-surgery, -7.93 +/- 3.65 mu V, p = 0.42), yet the latency of the main negative peak showed a significant decrease (pre-surgery, 143.9 +/- 12.9 ms, post-surgery, 133.2 +/- 7.7 ms, p = 0.0006). The BCVA improvement was significant from before to after cataract surgery (pre-surgery, 0.344 +/- 0.125 LogMAR, post-surgery, 0.224 +/- 0.179 LogMAR, p = 0.013) yet not correlated to the absolute decrease in latency of the BY-VEP after surgery (r = 0.309, p = 0.22). No significant changes were found in the contralateral eye.The BY-VEP is sensitive to lenticular opacities of the human lens, presumably due to the increased short-wavelength absorption in the aging eye. This fact should be considered when applying BY-VEPs for diagnostics.