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Eclipse retinopathy injury scale (ERIS): A classification of acute macular damage resulting from unprotected solar eclipse viewing

Postępy Higieny i Medycyny Doświadczalnej
Volume 75 (2021): Issue 1 (January 2021)
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|Jan 2022

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Figure 1:

Photographs of the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, taken with a 15 cm Newtonian reflector telescope by the first author (M.C.) from Szczecin, Poland. Image A was taken at 10:21 CET, almost midway into the eclipse. In B several individual images of the eclipse have been assembled together including Image A (white box). The obscurity of the eclipse was 45.40% at 10:21 CET.
Photographs of the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015, taken with a 15 cm Newtonian reflector telescope by the first author (M.C.) from Szczecin, Poland. Image A was taken at 10:21 CET, almost midway into the eclipse. In B several individual images of the eclipse have been assembled together including Image A (white box). The obscurity of the eclipse was 45.40% at 10:21 CET.

Figure 2.

Color fundus photograph (CFP) of the right eye in a patient with solar retinopathy (A). Near-infrared fundus autofluorescence image (NIR-AF) of the right eye in the same patient (B). Macular damage diameter was measured (white arrows) in both images yielding a result of 139 μm in the CFP image and 231 μm in the NIR-AF image.
Color fundus photograph (CFP) of the right eye in a patient with solar retinopathy (A). Near-infrared fundus autofluorescence image (NIR-AF) of the right eye in the same patient (B). Macular damage diameter was measured (white arrows) in both images yielding a result of 139 μm in the CFP image and 231 μm in the NIR-AF image.

Eclipse Retinopathy Injury Scale for the classification of acute macular damage caused by unprotected solar eclipse viewing

scorecalculated Erdiameter of macular damagegrade
1 pointEr = 12–35 cal cm-2 min-2100–150 µm2 points – grade 1
2 pointsEr =35–140 cal cm-2 min-2150–200 µm3 points – grade 2
3 pointsEr >140 cal cm-2 min-2>200 µm4 points – grade 3
5 points – grade 4
6 points – grade 5

Local conditions for Szczecin, Poland, during the solar eclipse on March 20, 2015

Time of observation (CET)Solar elevation (deg)Obscurity (%)L (W/m2)EOCC (W/m2)EOCC (cal/s/ cm2)
7:5214.80610905512.16
10:2131.945.4860697041.66
12.0136.408931325603.17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ahem-2021-0042 | Journal eISSN: 1732-2693
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Language: English
Page range: 1005 - 1011
Submitted on: Jan 16, 2021
Accepted on: Aug 17, 2021
Published on: Jan 17, 2022
Published by: Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
Solar eclipse,
retinopathy,
classification
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Molecular biology,
Microbiology and virology,
Medicine,
Basic medical science,
Immunology

© 2022 Maciej Czepita, Edyta Podlewska-Gaca, Damian Czepita, published by Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy
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