Retinitis Pigmentosa and Birth Control Pills
Abstract
To the Editor.—
It has long been the clinical impression of ophthalmologists familiar with retinal pigmentary degeneration (retinitis pigmentosa) that some women suffering from this slowly progressive and potentially blinding disease have an accelerated loss of periphal visual field during pregnancy. (An analagous situation would be the more rapid progression of diabetic retinopathy during pregnancy.) The mechanism of this phenomenon remains obscure, but hormonal factors are...