Structural and Functional Progression in the Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To elucidate the temporal relationship between detection of glaucomatous optic disc progression, as assessed by fundus photography, and visual field progression.

Design

Prospective, randomized, longitudinal trial.

Participants

Three hundred six study eyes with manifest glaucoma with field loss and 192 fellow eyes without any field defect at the start of the trial, from a total of 249 subjects included in the Early Manifest Glaucoma Trial (EMGT), were assessed.

Methods

Evaluation of visual field progression and optic disc progression during an 8-year follow-up period. Three graders independently assessed optic disc progression in optic disc photographs. Visual field progression was assessed using glaucoma change probability maps and the EMGT progression

SUBMITTER: Ohnell H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4877258 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature