[The relations of morphological and functional changes in children with retinal dystrophy disease].

PURPOSE: To characterize the correlation between functional and morphological changes in the retina in the retinal dystrophies in children.

METHODS: In the group of six patients with selected types of retinal dystrophies was analysed the morphological findings obtained by the Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and their correlation with the electrophysiological findings.

RESULTS: Typical morphological retinal changes visualised by OCT were confirmed in all examined patients and were in correlation with progressive loss of visual function (decrease of visual acuity, constriction of visual field or scotomas in visual field, colour vision defect, nyctalopia) and abnormal values of the electrophysiological findings.

CONCLUSION: Optical coherence tomography and electrophysiological methods are essential in approaching patient with tapetoretinal dystrophies. Correlation of these findings enables us to make diagnose easier, to understand better the dynamic of the morfological and functional changes in these patients. It can also be implicated as prognostic indicators for visual progression in patients with retinal dystrophy and also in prevention by means of genetic methods.