Association of foveal avascular zone change and glaucoma progression.

ABSTRACT:

Background/aims

To investigate the association between longitudinal changes of foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area and the rate of structural and functional progression in glaucoma.

Methods

A longitudinal cohort included 115 eyes (46 glaucoma suspect and 66 primary open-angle glaucoma) of 81 patients having ≥2 year follow-up, and ≥4 visits with optical coherence tomography angiography and visual field (VF). Eyes in the longitudinal cohort with a slope greater than that found in 95 percentile of separate healthy test-retest series for FAZ area were categorised into FAZ progressors; all other eyes were defined as FAZ non-progressors. A generalised linear mixed-effect model was used to investigate the association of FAZ progressors with demographic and clinical characteristics.

SUBMITTER: Nishida T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11192860 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature