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Top-seven American Glaucoma Society Meeting
Naples, Florida, March 4-7, 2010
Claude Burgoyne
- Topical Vitamin D lowers intraocular pressure in non-human primates. (Paul Kaufman, Madison, WI, USA)
- The risk of blindness within ten years of diagnosis for glaucoma patients in Olmstead County, Minnesota decreased from 14% (5-22%, 95% CI) for the period from 1980-84 to 7% (3-11%, 95% CI) for the period of 1995 to 2000. However, a relatively constant segment of the population continues to go blind while under the care of optometrists, general ophthalmologists and glaucoma specialists. (Arthur Sit, Rochester, MN, USA)
- Within the continental US, there was an association between geographic residence in early life and the development of exfoliative syndrome (ES) and glaucoma (EG) with a significantly reduced risk associated with early life residence in the middle and southern tiers. (Lou Pasquale, Boston, MA, USA)
- SDOCT optic nerve head (ONH) imaging can sensitively and specifically detect change within longitudinal data sets of monkeys with unilateral experimental IOP elevations and is further able to detect differences in the depth of laminar deformation at the onset of ONH surface change in young and old monkey eyes. (Claude Burgoyne, New Orleans, LA, USA)
- One-year results in the Ahmed Baerveldt Comparison Study suggest that IOP is lower and there are less re-operations in the Baerveldt group, but there are also more complications. (Don Budenz, Miami, FL, USA)
- Overall improvement of RGC dysfunction as detected and characterized by pattern Electroretinogram (optimized for glaucoma - PERGLA) testing was noted in a group of 42 patients following intraocular pressure lowering. (Mitra Sehi, Palm Beach Gardens, FL, USA)
- In a group of 587 treated glaucoma patients peak IOP was a better predictor of visual field progression than either mean IOP or IOP fluctuation both overall and in low and high IOP groups. While corneal thickness and peripapillary atrophy were also significant risk factors in both IOP groups, age and disc hemorrhage were significant risks in the low IOP group only. (Gustavo V. De Moraes, New York, NY, USA)