Rates of visual field progression in clinical glaucoma care

Preserving patients' vision by monitoring glaucoma progression rate

Glaucoma is a progressive optic neuropathy with characteristic damage of the optic nerve head that results in visual field loss.

Glaucoma progression: time to tame technology

1 The rate of visual field progression is used to guide the therapeutic intervention for the individual patient. The rate of progression in ...

Pointwise Methods to Measure Long-term Visual Field Progression ...

Rates of visual field (VF) progression vary among patients with glaucoma. Knowing the rate of progression of individual patients would allow appropriately ...

Following Progression in Glaucoma Patients

In a visual field, this means losing 1.5 to 2 decibels of sensitivity per year. These are the patients who are most likely to run into trouble.

Rates of Glaucoma Progression Derived from Linear Mixed Models ...

Results A total of 52,900 visual fields from 6,558 eyes of 3,981 subjects were included. Mean follow-up period was 8.7±4.0 years, with an ...

The Frequency of Visual Field Testing in a US Nationwide Cohort of ...

For those enrollees who received incisional glaucoma surgery, the median number of visual field tests per year was 0.86 (IQR, 0.60–0.1.17). For ...

Evaluation of the progression of visual field damage in patients suffe

The average number of VFs for each eye examined was 8.63±2.65. At baseline, the average MD was −4.08±4.03 dB. The rate of progression of MD of ...

The Glaucoma Intensive Treatment Study (GITS): A Randomized ...

Three different analyses were performed: (1) remaining visual field at projected time for end of life; (2) rate of progression of visual field damage; and (3) a ...

Frequent visual field testing helps detect glaucoma progression early

The simulation utilized data from 139 patients with glaucoma (277 eyes) from a longitudinal study conducted in the Netherlands. The rate of ...

Computerized Assessment of Visual Field Progression

One might assume that progression assessment using standard visual field testing would be fairly straightforward. Data are numeric, and untreated glaucoma ...

Assessing Glaucoma Progression Using Machine Learning Trained ...

visual field loss in clinical trials of glaucoma treatment. Arch Ophthalmol ... A method to measure and predict rates of regional visual field decay in ...

Glaucoma: Understanding Vulnerability Zones and Visual Field Loss

“We know that even with the current standard of care, about 20 percent of glaucoma patients continue to progress to blindness,” says Dr. De ...

Improvement of the visual field index in clinical glaucoma care

Multiple variables were analyzed to determine their impact on rates of visual field progression, including sex, age, disease staging, intraocular pressure (IOP) ...

Glaucoma: The Perils of Progression - Review of Optometry

There were no significant differences in visual acuity, IOP or mean deviation loss on visual field testing between the two groups at the study's ...

Fast Progressors in Glaucoma - Ophthalmology

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of fast global and central visual field (VF) progression in individuals with glaucoma under routine care.

Focusing on glaucoma progression and the clinical importance of ...

Most of these patients had visual field (VF) loss at diagnosis but, more ... A visual field index for calculation of glaucoma rate progression. Am J ...

Rates of Visual Field Change in Patients With Glaucoma and ...

After adjusting for baseline mean sensitivity, baseline age, and IOP, the mean (SE) rate of mean sensitivity change was −0.032 (0.052) dB/y faster among ...

To compare central visual field progression using mean...

Therefore, functional testing is an integral part of glaucoma diagnosis and monitoring. The rate of progression plays a crucial role in modulating treatment.

Using Visual Fields to Predict Progression - Review of Ophthalmology

Depending on their age and other factors, many patients who have a slow rate of progression may do well without any treatment at all. If a 70- ...

Full article: Understanding and identifying visual field progression

While retinal imaging is now ubiquitous and is of tremendous utility in the management of glaucoma, the core goal of glaucoma treatment is to preserve visual ...