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<strong>ARVO</strong> 2013 Annual Meeting Abstracts by Scientific Section/Group – <strong>Visual</strong> <strong>Psychophysics</strong> / <strong>Physiological</strong> <strong>Optics</strong>perimetry than MS patients. The ON presence impaired the visualfunction mainly for visual perimetry and NMO patients.Commercial Relationships: Phelipe A. Paixao, None; Lorena B.Botelho Vergara, None; Lucas Daniel A. Almeida Fernandes,None; Eliza Maria C. Lacerda, None; Givago S. Souza, None;Hideraldo Luis Souza Cabeça, None; Alexandre A. Rosa, None;Luiz Carlos L. Silveira, NoneSupport: CNPq, CAPES, FINEP, FAPESPA, UFPAProgram Number: 3026 Poster Board Number: C0189Presentation Time: 8:30 AM - 10:15 AMPsychophysical and electrophysiological evaluation of visualfunction in type 1 diabeticsValéria D. Garcia 1, 3 , Mirella Gualtieri 3, 1 , Mirella T. Barboni 3, 1 ,Daniela M. Bonci 3, 1 , Thiago L. Costa 3, 1 , Balázs V. Nagy 1, 3 , Sérgio T.Rodrigues 4 , Ana L. Moura 1, 3 , Francisco Max Damico 1, 2 , Dora F.Ventura 1, 3 . 1 Neuroscience and bahavior, University of São Paulo,São Paulo, Brazil; 2 Ophthalmology, University of São Paulo, SãoPaulo, Brazil; 3 Experimental Psychology, University of São Paulo,São Paulo, Brazil; 4 Physical Education, Universidade EstadualPaulista, Bauru, Brazil.Purpose: Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a chronic disease that impairsdifferent aspects of health at different times during its progression.One of the most prevalent complications associated with DM isdiabetic retinopathy (DR), which causes losses in visual functionsand can ultimately result in blindness. <strong>Visual</strong> loss can be detectedprior to the development of DR, potentially leading to improvementin the blood sugar control, prevention, and treatment of DR. Thepresent work investigated color discrimination, contrast sensitivityand the multifocal electroretinogram (mfERG) of type 1 DM patientswithout DR.Methods: Twenty patients with type 1 DM without DR (mean age =28 ± 7 years old) were compared to 20 control subjects withoutdiabetes or ocular diseases (mean age = 28 ± 5). Color discriminationwas evaluated with the Cambridge Colour Test (CCT) and contrastsensitivity with the Metropsis software (Cambridge Research System,Ltd) using vertical sine wave gratings at seven spatial frequencies(0.2; 0.5; 1; 2; 5; 10; 20 cpd). The <strong>Visual</strong> Evoked ResponseImagining System (VERIS) was used to record the mfERGs . Groupswere compared using ANOVA.Results: Type 1 diabetic patients presented significantly elevatedvalues for all CCT parameters compared to control subjects. Protan,deutan and tritan thresholds in u’v’ units were respectively 51.95 ±23.81 (F 1,40 = 5.384, p = 0.026); 53.45 ± 25.66 (F 1,40 = 6.90, p =0,012) and 93,90 ± 41,94 (F 1,40 = 14.30, p = 0.001); elipse area was1672 ± 1102 (F 1,40 = 11.665, p = 0.002). Contrast sensitivity wasreduced in the diabetics at 0. 2 cpd (F 1,40 = 4.67, p = 0.037) and 5 cpd(F 1,40 = 6.08, p = 0.004). mfERGs of DM patients showed increasedimplicit time for N1 at 0° (F 1,40 = 5.18, p = 0.03) and N2 at 5°(F 1,40 =4.15, p = 0.04) eccentricities. In addition, there was reducedamplitude of N2 at the 20° (F 1,40 = 4.40, p = 0.04) and 25° (F 1,40 =5.42, p = 0.02) eccentricities.Conclusions: Non retinopathic type 1 diabetes mellitus patientspresent significant visual loss detectable by psychophysical andelectrophysiological tests. Retinal hypoxia caused by chronichyperglycemia has been identified as the main reason for reducedvisual functions detected in the early DM, including color vision lossand contrast sensitivity. These findings suggest that psychophysicaland electrophysiological tests should be routinely performed indiabetic patientsCommercial Relationships: Valéria D. Garcia, FAPESP (F);Mirella Gualtieri, None; Mirella T. Barboni, None; Daniela M.Bonci, None; Thiago L. Costa, None; Balázs V. Nagy, None;Sérgio T. Rodrigues, None; Ana L. Moura, None; Francisco MaxDamico, None; Dora F. Ventura, NoneProgram Number: 3027 Poster Board Number: C0190Presentation Time: 8:30 AM - 10:15 AMPsychophysical Measurement of Rod and Cone Thresholds inStargardt Disease with Full-Field StimuliFrederick T. Collison 1 , Gerald A. Fishman 1, 2 , J Jason McAnany 2 ,Jana Zernant 3 , Rando Allikmets 3, 4 . 1 The Pangere Center forHereditary Retinal Diseases, The Chicago Lighthouse for PeopleWho Are Blind or <strong>Visual</strong>ly Impaired, Chicago, IL; 2 Department ofOphthalmology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL;3 Department of Ophthalmology, Columbia University, New York,NY; 4 Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, ColumbiaUniversity, New York, NY.Purpose: To investigate rod and cone psychophysical thresholds inStargardt disease with the Diagnosys Full-Field Stimulus Test (D-FST) using chromatic stimuli and a dark adaptation protocol.Methods: Twenty-two patients with Stargardt disease (age range 21-52) were categorized by fundus appearance as Stage 1 (flecksconfined to the macula, n=7), Stage 2 (flecks also outside the macula,n=6), or Stage 3 (resorbed flecks, n=9). The better-seeing eye wastested with ETDRS acuity charts, SD-OCT, and full-field ERG.Using the D-FST, dark-adapted rod thresholds were measured withshort-wavelength stimuli and cone thresholds were obtained from thecone plateau phase of dark adaptation using long-wavelength stimuli.Four visually normal subjects (age range 28-38) also underwent theD-FST with the same protocol.For D-FST results zero dB = 0.1 photopic cd/m 2 . Correlationcoefficients were calculated for comparisons of D-FST thresholds toother tests.Results: Stargardt patient D-FST cone thresholds correlated withETDRS acuity (r=+0.56, p

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