Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Moreno, María Cecilia
• Giagante, Brenda
• Saidon, Patricia
• Kochen, Silvia
• Benozzi, Jorge
• Rosenstein, Ruth E

Titel

Visual defects associated with vigabatrin: a study of epileptic argentine patients

Ist Teil von

• Canadian journal of neurological sciences, 2005-11, Vol.32 (4), p.459-464

Ort / Verlag

England

Erscheinungsjahr

2005

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The aim of the present study was to assess visual alterations in a population of Argentine patients treated with the antiepileptic drug vigabatrin. Twenty patients receiving vigabatrin and 15 patients receiving carbamazepine were examined with automated perimetry using a Humphrey 120-point full screening strategy. In addition, scotopic flash electroretinograms were performed. Of 20 patients treated with vigabatrin, two were unable to cooperate with testing. Of the remaining 18 patients, all but two showed at least one non-detected point inside the central 40 degrees of the visual field of each eye. Of the 15 carbamazepine-treated patients, three were unable to perform the study. None of the remaining 12 patients showed visual field defects. Both a- and b-wave amplitudes of the scotopic electroretinogram were significantly reduced in 12 patients receiving vigabatrin. Visual field defects among patients on vigabatrin therapy may occur with a higher frequency than previously recognized. The Humphrey 120-points full field screening test and electroretinography are useful tools to assess the visual dysfunction associated with vigabatrin.