TY - JOUR T1 - Retinal function in high refractive error assessed electroretinographically. JF - British Journal of Ophthalmology JO - Br J Ophthalmol SP - 79 LP - 84 DO - 10.1136/bjo.68.2.79 VL - 68 IS - 2 AU - I. Perlman AU - E. Meyer AU - T. Haim AU - S. Zonis Y1 - 1984/02/01 UR - http://bjo.bmj.com/content/68/2/79.abstract N2 - The retinal function of patients with high refractive error was studied electroretinographically. Thirty-one hypermetropic patients, 7 myopic patients, and 7 patients with either unilateral or bilateral aphakia participated in the study. The ERG responses were measured in the light- and dark-adapted states. It was found that myopic eyes were characterised by subnormal amplitude but normal pattern, expressed by normal relationship between the b-wave amplitude and the a-wave amplitude. In aphakia the ERG responses were of normal amplitude and pattern. However, the hypermetropic patients could be divided into 3 groups. One group included subjects with a subnormal b-wave to a-wave relationship. The second group was characterised by a normal b- to a-wave relationship, while patients belonging to the third group exhibited supernormal b-wave to a-wave relationship. This classification of hypermetropic subjects did not correlate with the axial length of the eye or the refraction of the ocular media. ER -