[The diagnostic importance of the macular color test in vascular optic neuropathies].

A color-macular test is proposed for diagnosing functional changes in the optic nerve in acute vascular optic neuropathies. The diagnostic value of the test was proved in investigation of sick and clinically healthy fellow eyes of 80 patients with acute vascular optic neuropathies associated with atherosclerosis, aged from 30 to 74 years, as compared with a control group (60 persons of the same age and with the same general vascular pathology).