Aim: To establish a useful and objective classification for retinitis pigmentosa (RP) to evaluate the disease severity. Methods: This is a retrospective cross-sectional study. Visual acuity (VA), visual field (VF) width, ellipsoid zone width on optic cohorence tomography (OCT) and multifocal electroretinography (mf ERG) values were obtained from medical records of patients with RP. A scoring criterion was developed wherein each variable was assigned a score from 0 to 5 depending on its distribution. The cumulative score (from 0 to 20) was used to classify disease severity from grade 0 to 5. The scores were correlated with each other and the final grade. Results: Data of 152 eyes of 92 patients who had the results of all tests were reviewed. The mean age was 41.2 years. The mean VA of the patients was 0.13 ± 0.16 Snellen lines. The majority of patients had a VA less than 20/40 (88.6%), a visual field smaller than 20˚ (78%), and an ellipsoid zone width smaller than 7˚ (84.4%). The majority of the patients (85.4%) were in advanced stage of the disease (Grade 4 and 5). Conclusions: We present a simple, objective and easy to use disease severity classification for RP which can be used to categorize patients and to evaluate and compare treatment results.
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