Author/Authors :
Shushtarian, Mohammad Masoud Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry - Faculty of Advance Science and Technology - Tehran Medical Sciences - Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Adhami-Moghadam, Farhad Department of Ophthalmology - Faculty of Medicine - Tehran Medical Sciences - Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Adhami-Moghadam, Parnian Tehran Medical Sciences - Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , abdolhesmpour, hesam Department of Neurosurgery - Faculty of Medicine - Tehran Medical Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Sjogren’s syndrome is one of the most common autoimmune diseases. It may exist as either a primary syndrome or as a secondary syndrome associated with other autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and systemic sclerosis. Patient with Sjogren’s syndrome have certain visual system involvements with dry eye being the most common type. These patients may also exhibit certain pathological changes in their retina and visual pathway.
Here we report the electrophysiological recordings including visual evoked potential, electroretinography and electrooculography findings in a patient with Sjogren’s syndrome.
Keywords :
Sjogren’s syndrome , Evoked potentials , Visual , Electro- retinography