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Abstract #49312 Published in IGR 14-1
First experience with the heidelberg edge perimeter® on patients with ocular hypertension and preperimetric glaucoma
Hasler S; Stü,rmer JKlinische Monatsblätter für Augenheilkunde 2012; 229: 319-322
BACKGROUND: The white-on-white computerised static perimetry is not very sensitive to detect a beginning visual field loss. A newer technique to test the central visual field with a flicker defined form technology (FDF) is the Heidelberg Edge Perimeter® (HEP). Patients and METHODS: A study with 90 eyes from 50 patients (mean age 59 ± 14 years) with ocular hypertension and/or optic nerve suspicious for glaucoma without detectable visual field loss in the Octopus® perimetry (Program dG-2) with the Heidelberg Edge Perimeter® was performed. The "mean defect" (MD), the "pattern standard deviation" and the glaucoma hemifield test (GHT) were calculated and compared with the indices of the Octopus®. RESULTS: Despite normal visual field findings in the Octopus® perimetry (MD < 2.0 dB) we detected in 48 out of 90 eyes (53 %) pathological visual fields in the HEP examination. CONCLUSIONS: As a new research method the Heidelberg Edge perimetry® seems to be more sensitive than conventional static perimetry in early detection of visual field alterations in patients between ocular hypertension and incipient glaucoma.
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Classification:
6.6.3 Special methods (e.g. color, contrast, SWAP etc.) (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.6 Visual field examination and other visual function tests)
