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A third of people in the sample saw less than 20/40 in at least one eye, and 51% of those referred had glaucoma


Balance was worse in glaucoma patients with greater VF damage


Surprisingly, there was no association between RGC+IPL thickness and VRQoL


Both CH and CRF are viscoelastic parameters and highly correlated


The authors suggest that their findings may provide a basis for a new functional tests


The study provides supportive evidence of CoQ10/TPGS as a neuroprotective treatment and emphasizes a great potential of the "Detection of apoptosing retinal cells"


The intimate relationship between the astrocyte and axon is clearly going to be one of the keys to fully understanding and treating this enigmatic group of diseases known as glaucoma


The new results surprisingly did not corroborate the anticipated IOP elevation during the sleep period or the IOP-lowering effect due to the head-up sleep body position


Fixation losses did not influence MD values to any appreciable extent, but false positives elevated MD, and increasing amounts of false negatives and test time decreased MD values


This study reports compelling evidence that the anterior lamina cribrosa surface and the optic nerve head surface measured by OCT provide biomarkers capable of predicting subsequent visual field progression in glaucoma


The findings show the importance of parapapillary beta zone as parameter (of second ranking order) for the diagnosis of glaucomatous optic neuropathy


The authors suggested that large pores in myopic eyes with more tilted disc may evolve into LC defects, proposing this finding as a unique mechanism that causes VF defects in myopic eyes with glaucoma


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