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1 From the Department of Ophthalmology, School of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Alabama; and 2 Department of Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
PURPOSE. To determine whether there is rod system dysfunction in the central retina of patients with age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
METHODS. Dark-adapted sensitivity (500-nm stimulus) and light-adapted sensitivity (600 nm) were measured psychophysically at 52 loci in the central 38° (diameter) of retina in 80 patients with AMD, and results were compared with those from older adult normal controls. All dark-adapted data were corrected for preretinal absorption.
RESULTS. Mean field dark-adapted sensitivity was significantly lower in AMD patients as a group than in normal subjects. Within the AMD group were subsets of patients with normal mean dark- and light-adapted sensitivities; reduced dark-adapted sensitivities without detectable light-adapted losses; both types of losses; and, least commonly, only light-adapted losses. Regional retinal analyses of the dark-adapted deficit indicated the greatest severity was 2° to 4° or approximately 1 mm from the fovea, and the deficit decreased with increasing eccentricity.
CONCLUSIONS. These psychophysical results are consistent with histopathologic findings of a selective vulnerability for parafoveal rod photoreceptors in AMD. The different patterns of rod and cone system losses among patients at similar clinical stages reinforces the notion that AMD is a group of disorders with underlying heterogeneity of mechanism of visual loss. Dark-adapted macula-wide testing may be a useful complement to the more traditional outcome measures of fundus pathology and foveal cone-based psychophysics in future AMD trials.
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