A prospective trial was conducted of laser trabeculoplasty randomly assigned to one eye of a group of elderly patients with bilateral primary phakic open angle glaucoma who were already taking the maximum medical treatment that they could tolerate. With a minimum follow-up of 2 1/2 years (mean 35 months) a significant fall in mean intraocular pressure of over 7 mmHg (30%) at the time of the pat...

PURPOSE Considering that noncompliance to glaucoma treatment is one of the risk factors associated with disease s progression, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate: 1) knowledge and feelings about the disease; 2) self-reported noncompliance to treatment and related factors; and 3) influence of disease in lifestyle. METHODS Interviews, with application of a semi-structured question...

Short pulsed laser trabeculotomy has been shown to reduce intraocular pressure in patients with primary open angle glaucoma. This study seeks to determine the energy levels required to produce a fistula into the canal of Schlemm for four different Q-switched neodymium-YAG lasers. The laser was fired at fixed human trabecular meshwork specimens at a range of energy settings for each laser and th...

In a study comparing the visual field defects of patients with chronic simple and low-tension glaucoma differences in the nature of the defect were found between the 2 groups. Patients with low-tension glaucoma had far 'steeper sided' defects than those seen in chronic simple glaucoma (p less than 0.01).

AIMS The risk of developing cataract in patients with untreated glaucoma or with ocular hypertension was evaluated by comparing the values of lenticular autofluorescence and light transmission in 16 patients with primary open angle glaucoma and 22 patients with ocular hypertension with those of 24 healthy controls. METHODS Increase of lenticular autofluorescence and decrease of transmission v...

OBJECTIVE This study investigated the influence of early to moderate primary open angle glaucoma on gait, functional mobility and fall risk. METHODS Thirty-three participants in the early and moderate stages of primary open angle glaucoma and 34 asymptomatic controls participated in the study. Spatiotemporal gait data were obtained with the GAITRite system and included: velocity, cadence, ste...

Static automated visual field testing is now an integral part of the detection and monitoring of primary open angle glaucoma. However, although many aspects of testing are automated, interpretation of the large amounts of data produced by these instruments is not. Two major challenges facing the practitioner are differentiating between the visual fields of a patient with early glaucoma and thos...

The change in intraocular pressure achieved after 98 trabeculectomy operations performed on 70 patients with primary open-angle glaucoma was analysed. The reduction was proportional to the untreated preoperative pressure, and the results indicated that a first trabeculectomy reduced the intraocular pressure to between 16 and 20 mmHg irrespective of its initial level. Cases which required medica...

The purpose of this study was to determine the association of well-being and cognitive impairment with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) patients attending a tertiary care hospital in Malaysia. Fifty-four individuals were recruited for study as cases were matched with 60 individuals as the control subjects, and data were collected using the WHO well-being index and the validated 6-item cogniti...