Comparison between the Recommendations of Glaucoma Specialists and OCT Report Specialists for Further Ophthalmic Evaluation in a Community-Based Screening Study.

Purpose: To compare glaucoma referral patterns between glaucoma and OCT report specialists and to determine what influence, if any, a designated OCT reading could have on a glaucoma specialist's judgments.

Design: Retrospective, exploratory study.

Subjects: We included 483 eyes (243 individuals) from high-risk New York City neighborhoods screened as part of a mobile van glaucoma screening study from July 2017 to October 2017.

β-Zone Parapapillary Atrophy and Rates of Glaucomatous Visual Field Progression: African Descent and Glaucoma Evaluation Study.

Importance: β-zone parapapillary atrophy (βPPA) has been reported as a risk factor for glaucoma onset and progression. Previous studies have shown that the prevalence of βPPA differs between individuals of African descent (AD) and European descent (ED).

Objective: To test whether the association between the presence and progression of βPPA vs visual field progression of glaucoma differs between these 2 ancestry groups.