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Relationship between visual field testing and scanning laser polarimetry in patients with a large cup-to-disk ratio.

Abstract：

PURPOSE:To determine the relationship between quantitative nerve fiber layer measurements and visual field testing in patients with large cup-to-disk ratios. METHODS:Seventy-six patients with vertical cup-to-disk ratios by contour of at least 0.8 on stereoscopic photographs and 50 normal subjects were included. One eye was randomly selected for study. All patients underwent standard achromatic automated perimetry, short-wavelength automated perimetry, and retinal nerve fiber layer measurements with scanning laser polarimetry. Analysis of variance was used to evaluate differences between the subject groups. Significance of pairwise comparisons was determined using the Tukey-Kramer multiple comparison test. RESULTS:Statistically significant differences in nerve fiber layer measurements between patients with large cup-to-disk ratios and both abnormal standard achromatic automated perimetry and short-wavelength automated perimetry (n = 22) and patients with large cup-to-disk ratios and both normal standard achromatic automated perimetry and short-wavelength automated perimetry (n = 42) were found for superior nasal ratio, maximum modulation, ellipse modulation, and the linear discriminant function (Tukey-Kramer less than.05). There was no significant difference in patients with abnormal short-wavelength automated perimetry only (n = 9) as compared with patients with both normal standard achromatic automated perimetry and short-wavelength automated perimetry and patients with both abnormal standard achromatic automated perimetry and short-wavelength automated perimetry. Statistically significant differences between the normal subjects and patients with large cup-to-disk ratios and both abnormal standard achromatic automated perimetry and short-wavelength automated perimetry were found for all retinal nerve fiber layer parameters, with the exception of symmetry, superior ratio, and inferior ratio. CONCLUSION:Our results show considerable overlap in nerve fiber layer measurements in eyes with large cup-to-disk ratio and abnormal visual fields as compared with eyes with large cup-to-disk ratios and normal visual fields. This may limit the clinical usefulness of scanning laser polarimetry for detection of early glaucoma in patients with large cup-to-disk ratios. Longitudinal studies are needed to determine if patients with large cup-to-disk ratios with normal standard achromatic automated perimetry and abnormal short-wavelength automated perimetry subsequently develop standard achromatic automated perimetry defects and if scanning laser polarimetry can concurrently detect progression of nerve fiber layer damage.

journal_name

Am J Ophthalmol

journal_title

American journal of ophthalmology

authors

Tannenbaum DP,Zangwill LM,Bowd C,Sample PA,Weinreb RN

doi

10.1016/s0002-9394(01)01107-2

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2001-10-01 00:00:00

pages

501-6

issue

eissn

0002-9394

issn

1879-1891

pii

S0002939401011072

journal_volume

132

pub_type

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Relationship between visual field testing and scanning laser polarimetry in patients with a large cup-to-disk ratio.