Visual field progression in patients with severe glaucoma.

Purpose: To assess the cumulative risk of progression in glaucomatous eyes in the severe stage of disease.

Methods: This was a retrospective observational study. Patients that had severe damage in at least one eye, as defined by three criteria including a mean deviation of ≤ - 20 dB, were included.

Subconjunctival Injections of Mitomycin C Are Associated with a Lower Incidence of Hypertensive Phase in Eyes with Ahmed Glaucoma Valve.

Purpose: To evaluate the association of intraoperative and postoperative subconjunctival injections of mitomycin C (MMC) and rate of the hypertensive phase after implantation of the Ahmed glaucoma valve (AGV).

Design: Comparative case series.

Participants: This retrospective comparative study included 37 eyes of 35 patients with uncontrolled glaucoma on maximum tolerated medical therapy who underwent implantation of AGV by a single surgeon.

Glaucomatous visual field loss associated with less travel from home.

Purpose: To determine the association between glaucoma and travel away from home.

Methods: Fifty-nine glaucoma suspect controls with normal vision and 80 glaucoma subjects with bilateral visual field (VF) loss wore a cellular tracking device during 1 week of normal activity. Location data were used to evaluate the number of daily excursions away from home as well as daily time spent away from home.

The choroid is thicker in angle closure than in open angle and control eyes.

Purpose: To study factors associated with choroidal thickness (CT) and to compare CT in angle closure (AC), open angle (OA), and normal eyes.

Methods: Forty controls, 106 OA, and 79 AC subjects underwent measurements of posterior CT by spectral domain-optical coherence tomography, and of intraocular pressure (IOP), blood pressure, axial length (AL), and central corneal thickness (CCT).

Results: CT was significantly greater in AC than in OA and normal eyes (HSD test, P ≤ 0.

Choroidal thickness change after water drinking is greater in angle closure than in open angle eyes.

Purpose: To study change in choroidal thickness (CT) after water drinking test (WDT), comparing angle closure (AC) to open angle (OA) eyes.

Methods: Before and 30 minutes after drinking 1 L of water, 88 glaucoma subjects underwent measurements of CT by spectral domain-optical coherence tomography, IOP, blood pressure (BP), axial length (AL), and anterior chamber depth (ACD).

Results: Baseline CT was significantly greater in AC than in OA eyes (P = 0.

Impact of eyelid closure on the intraocular pressure lowering effect of prostaglandins: a randomised controlled trial.

Background/aims: To determine if eyelid closure (ELC) after topical prostaglandin instillation provides greater intraocular pressure (IOP) reduction than prostaglandin instillation without ELC.

Methods: Patients receiving chronic bilateral prostaglandin monotherapy were enrolled in this study. The study intervention, ELC, was randomly assigned to one eye, while the fellow eye served as control.

Choroidal thickness measured by spectral domain optical coherence tomography: factors affecting thickness in glaucoma patients.

Purpose: To measure choroidal thickness and to determine parameters associated with it.

Design: Cross-sectional study.

Participants: Seventy-four glaucoma patients and glaucoma suspects.