Association of Fellow Eye With Study Eye Disease Trajectories and Need for Fellow Eye Treatment in Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study (CIGTS) Participants.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Clinicians would benefit from knowing the association of glaucomatous change in 2 eyes of the same patient.

Objective

To estimate the time between initial glaucoma treatment of the study eye (SE) and the need for treatment of the fellow eye (FE) and to ascertain the concordance between rates of progression in SEs and FEs.

Design, setting, and participants

In this post hoc analysis of participants from the Collaborative Initial Glaucoma Treatment Study, 607 participants with newly diagnosed open-angle glaucoma in 1 or both eyes were followed up for up to 11 years. An SE was designated at baseline and randomized to medical or surgical treatment. By protocol, FEs were treated when eligible or at physician discretion. Survival analysis methods were used to esti

SUBMITTER: Niziol LM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6583863 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature