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Abstract #18989 Published in IGR 3-1
The loss of visual function in glaucoma
Sample PA; Bosworth CF; Weinreb RNSeminars in Ophthalmology 2000; 15: 182-193
This article reviews innovative techniques for assessing the visual field and for examining glaucoma patients for evidence of visual field progression. The authors discuss the algorithms for assessing change in visual fields used in each of several multicenter studies sponsored by the National Eye Institute. The authors also give a brief review of two currently available alternatives to standard automated perimetry. Both are visual function specific tests that attempt to evaluate a subpopulation of retinal ganglion cells. Short-wavelength automated perimetry isolates the small bistratified (blue-yellow) ganglion cells, and frequency doubling technology perimetry tests functions that should be primarily handled by the magnocellular ganglion cells. These new perimetric procedures are promising as improvements over standard automated perimetry; however, there is still no agreed upon method for determination of glaucomatous visual field progression.
Dr P.A. Sample, Department of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093-0946, USA
Classification:
6.3.2 Posterior segment (Part of: 6 Clinical examination methods > 6.3 Biomicroscopy (slitlamp))