EARLY DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUE FOR RETROBULBAR NEURITIS ACCOMPANYING MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC A61B3/02 A61B5/04 A61B8/10 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: if minimum changes of the eye grounds are observed and visometry and optical coherence tomography (OCT) fail to provide any informative findings, a microperimetry is conducted in the patient with symptoms of first appeared retrobulbar neuritis with using macula-8 program testing 45 points of eight degrees of central visual field with Goldmann III stimulus of 0.43 degrees of 200 ms long. Retrobulbar neuritis accompanying the onset of multiple sclerosis is diagnosed if the examinations show a moderate light-sensitivity in the nasal, upper or lower nasal segments of less than 16 dB within 8 degrees of the central visual field in a projection of a papillomacular bundle.

EFFECT: technique enables providing more reliable diagnosis in uncertain cases of the clinical course of the disease that is ensured by using microperimetry with macula-8 program additionally.

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