Visual Electrodiagnosis in Systemic Diseases : Proceedings of the 17th I.S.C.E.V. Symposium Erfurt, June 5-10, 1979

The research workers at the Eye Clinic of the Medical Academy of Erfurt are proud of having been entrusted, for the second time, with the organization of the yearly ISCEV symposium. Twelve years ago the 6th Symposium was held in Erfurt. This time we turned to Reinhardsbrunn, an old castle situated in the vicinity of Erfurt on the fringes of the wonderful mountainscape of the Thuringian Forest. Reinhardsbrunn castle serves today as a holiday hotel and convention place. It seemed to us to be the right place for carrying on the discussions in a comfortable and informal way after the actual sessions were over. Comparing the scientific reports read at the 6th and 17th Symposium, both organized in Erfurt, one readily becomes aware of the impressive advances in our rapidly developing field of interest. The technical and, more specifically, the electronic advancements have been enormous, especially in the field of recording and processing the visually evoked cortical potentials·. Adually, the addition of this special field of study to our realm, led to the renaming of the Society some years ago. Moreover, it became more and more obvious that interdisciplinary cooperation between ophthalmologists, physiologists, physi­ cists, technologists and mathematicians is essential. This is also reflected in the composition of our membership. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 ERG and EOG in Systemic Diseases (Main Report)....Pages 3-17 Electrophysiological Studies in Groenblad-strandberg Syndrome....Pages 19-25 ERG and EOG in Scleroderma....Pages 27-31 Electrophysiological Examination and Cine-angiofluorographic Study Of Vasculopathies in Man....Pages 33-48 ERG and EOG in Carotid Artery Occlusion Disease....Pages 49-55 Electroretinographic Findings in Retinal Vascular Obstructions....Pages 57-61 Electroretinography and Chronoperimetry in Treatment of Diabetic Retinopathy by Drugs and Light Coagulation....Pages 63-66 ERGs in Streptozotocin-Diabetic Rats under Different Insulin Regimens....Pages 67-76 The Significance of Some Electrophysiological Methods in the Diagnosis of the Diabetic Retinopathy....Pages 77-78 Why Do Corticosteroids Increase the ERG Amplitude? an Experimental Study in Rabbits....Pages 79-85 The Effects of Aldosterone on the C-Wave of the Rabbit....Pages 87-90 Erg of Behçet’s Disease and Its Diagnostic Significance....Pages 91-93 Studies on the Early Receptor Potential in the Human Eye VIII. ERP in Behçet’s Disease....Pages 95-101 Electroretinographic, Electrooculographic and Visually Evoked Response Findings in Adamantiadis-behçet’s Disease....Pages 103-108 Some Characteristics of Visual Evoked Potentials in Patients with Periodic Disease....Pages 109-112 Visual Evoked Potentials and Pathology in Relapsing Experimental Allergic Encephalomyelitis....Pages 113-120 The Interest of Electroretinography in Parkinsonism....Pages 121-125 Computer Assisted Evaluation of Clinically Applied VEP in Some Ophthalmological and Neurological Diseases....Pages 127-132 ERG Variations in Myotonic Dystrophy (Steinert’s)....Pages 133-136 ERG in Some Inborn Errors of Metabolism....Pages 137-142 Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Clinical and Electrooculographic Findings in Cases of Regular Haemodialysis....Pages 143-147 ERG on Patients with Chronic Nephropathy....Pages 149-152 Logistic Function in the Analysis of the ERG in Dialysed Patients....Pages 153-157 Chronic Haemodialysis and ERG....Pages 159-166 Electroretinographic Studies in Patients after Renal Transplantation....Pages 167-170 Investigation by Means of VECP in Patients with Chronic Nephropathy....Pages 171-175 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 Localization of Distal Retinal Activity with the Transretinal ERG....Pages 179-186 ERG by Localised Sinusoidal Stimulation....Pages 187-192 The Local ERG with Laser and Light Emitting Diodes Stimulation....Pages 193-196 The Laser Electroretinogram and its Significance in the Investigation of the Functional State of the Retinal Macular Region....Pages 197-200 Early Potentials Evoked by Macular Stimulation: Optic Nerve Potentials?....Pages 201-207 Multispot Stimuli Reveal Spatial Organization in the Human Electroretinogram (ERG)....Pages 209-216 Human Fast Retinal Potentials Studied with Pattern Reversal Stimuli....Pages 217-225 Stimulus Field, Element Size and Human Visually Evoked Cortical Potentials....Pages 227-235 Visually Evoked Scalp Potential Fields in Hemiretinal Stimulation....Pages 237-243 Amplitude Fluctuations of the Monocular Checkerboard Ver Caused by Binocular Rivalry....Pages 245-248 Asymmetric Pattern Evoked Responses and Stimulus Parameters....Pages 249-253 Simultaneously Recorded Retinal and Cortical Potentials Elicited by Checkerboard Stimuli....Pages 255-262 Experience and Results of Perimetric Investigation by Means of Vecp....Pages 263-268 A New Perimeter for Electroperimetry....Pages 269-271 Front Matter....Pages 177-177 First Experience Gathered in Computer-Aided Detection of Electroperimetric VECP....Pages 273-277 An Attempt to Computer-Aided Detection of VECP for Electroperimetry....Pages 279-282 Sensitivity of Snellen, VER, and Arden Grating Acuity Estimations as Indicators of Macular and Optic Nerve Diseases....Pages 283-289 Proceedings of the 17th ISCEV Symposium, Erfurt, Germany, June 5-10, 1979