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Simple psychophysical techniques were used in order to assess layer-by-layer retinal functions in a patient with sub-retinal fluid due to a choroidal rupture following ocular trauma.
A sustained-like and a transient-like function believed to reflect retinal receptive-field-like properties, and an indicator of retinal receptor orientation (the Stiles-Crawford effect) have been followed in time. Central visual acuity was also measured. Initially all measured functions provided anomalous responses in affected retinal areas. Of interest here is the nature and order of recovery of the measured response functions. Most notable was the rapid rate of recovery of receptor orientation and the slower rate of recovery of the transient-like function.
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This research has been supported in part by National Eye Institute Research Grant EY-014 18-04 (to JME) NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, in part by National Eye Institute Research Grant No. 5RO1 EY-01084-03 (to CRF), in part by a Fellowship supported by Fight-for-Sight, Inc. New York City, in tribute to the memory of Hermann Burian, M.D. (to ECC) and in part by National Eye Institute Training Grant EY-00033 (to HEB).
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Campos, E.C., Bedell, H.E., Enoch, J.M. et al. Retinal receptive field-like properties and stiles-crawford effect in a patient with a traumatic choroidal rupture. Doc Ophthalmol 45, 381–395 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00161673
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