Increased prelaminar tissue thickness in patients with open-angle glaucoma and type 2 diabetes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The characteristics of the optic nerve head (ONH) in open angle glaucoma (OAG) patients with diabetes have not been reported. This study aimed to characterize the ONH structures and glaucomatous damage in diabetic OAG patients, using age-matched non-diabetic OAG patients and control subjects.

Methods

The locations of visual field defects of OAG patients were classified and the prelaminar thickness and lamina cribrosa depth were measured in 64 OAG patients with type 2 diabetes (OAG+DM), 68 OAG patients without diabetes (OAG-DM), and 36 controls. All participants were scanned by spectral domain-optical coherence tomography. The anterior prelaminar depth and lamina cribrosa depth were measured at the center of the reference line (the Bruch's membrane opening plane).

SUBMITTER: Sim YS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6366732 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature