Quantitative eye and head movement recordings of retinal disease mimicking spasmus nutans.

Abstract

To investigate whether quantitative head and eye movement recordings can distinguish patients with spasmus nutans from patients with retinal diseases mimicking spasmus nutans. A patient with congenital stationary night blindness was followed up for seven years with electro-oculographic eye movement recordings. Rhythmic head movements and fine, intermittent, asymmetric, disconjugate, high-frequency, out-of-phase pendular nystagmus were recorded. Eye and head movement recordings of patients with congenital stationary night blindness can mimic spasmus nutans.