Impact of optic disc hemorrhage on subsequent glaucoma progression in mild-to-moderate myopia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To investigate optic disc hemorrhage (DH)'s clinical implications to subsequent progression of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in cases of mild-to-moderate myopia.

Design

Retrospective comparative study.

Participants

(1) Fifty-nine (59) myopic (26.5 mm > axial length [AXL] ≥ 24.0 mm) POAG patients with DH and (2) 59 age-, AXL-, and mean deviation (MD) of visual field (VF)-matched controls without DH were evaluated over the course of a minimum 3.5 years of follow up. For clear assessment of the effect of DH on progression of glaucoma, the patients selected for inclusion in the study were those with stable IOP (i.e., those showing an at least 20% reduction relative to the baseline IOP) whose IOP-lowering medication was not increased, supplemented or changed d

SUBMITTER: Ha A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5734762 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature