The association between photoreceptor layer thickness measured by optical coherence tomography and visual sensitivity in glaucomatous eyes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the thickness of the photoreceptor layer in the macular region in glaucomatous eyes.

Method

Humphrey 10-2 visual field (VF) testing was carried out and mean threshold (mTH) was calculated in 118 eyes from 118 patients with open angle glaucoma. Macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) measurements (RS 3000, Nidek Co.ltd., Aichi, Japan) were also carried out in all eyes. Thickness measurements were recorded in the outer segment and retinal pigment epithelium (OS+RPE), the nerve fiber layer (NFL), the ganglion cell layer and inner plexiform layer (GCL+IPL), the inner nuclear layer and outer plexiform layer (INL+OPL) and the outer nuclear layer and inner segment (ONL+IS). The relationship between mTH and the thickness of these five different layers was invest

SUBMITTER: Asaoka R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5638206 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature