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EYE
Volume 35, Issue 9, Pages 2406-2418Publisher
SPRINGERNATURE
DOI: 10.1038/s41433-021-01659-y
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Recent advances in the understanding of inherited retinal diseases have led to a greater emphasis on multi-disciplinary collaboration to identify disease-causing genotypes. Visual electrophysiology plays an important role in guiding clinical geneticists towards a final molecular diagnosis.
The inherited retinal diseases (IRDs) have traditionally been described phenotypically with the description evolving to incorporate more sophisticated structural and functional assessments. In the last 25 years there has been considerable advances in the understanding of underlying genetic aetiologies. The role of the ophthalmologist is now to work in a multi-disciplinary team to identify the disease-causing genotype, which might be amenable to gene-directed intervention. Visual electrophysiology is an important tool to assist the ophthalmologist in guiding the clinical geneticist to reach a final molecular diagnosis. This review outlines the physiological basis for the ISCEV standard electrophysiology tests, the role of electrophysiology in localising the functional deficit, correlation with structural findings to guide diagnosis and finally management of IRDs in the era of genomics with emphasis on the outer retina.
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