[Relationship between standard automated perimetry and retinal nerve fiber layer parameters measured with laser polarimetry].

Purpose: To determine the relationship between the structural parameters of the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) obtained by using the scanning laser polarimetry with variable corneal compensation (GDx VCC) and the results of standard automated perimetry (SAP), in normal, ocular hypertensive, preperimetric glaucomas and glaucoma subjects.

Methods: A total of 423 eyes of 423 consecutive subjects were prospectively included in the study and classified depending on the basal intraocular pressure, optic nerve head appearance and SAP results into four groups: 87 normal eyes, 192 ocular hypertensive eyes, 70 preperimetric glaucomas and 74 glaucomatous eyes. Pearson's correlation coefficients, between mean deviation (MD), pattern standard deviation, number of points altered in each quadrant, and number of points altered at different probability levels of SAP and structural parameters of RNFL obtained by using GDx VCC, were calculated in the different diagnostic groups.

Correlation between functional and structural assessments of the optic nerve and retina in multiple sclerosis patients.

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between functional eye examinations (visual evoked potentials: VEPs; pattern electroretinogram: PERG) and structural measurements of the optic nerve (optical coherence tomography: OCT; scanning laser polarimetry: GDx) in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS).

Methods: Patients with definite MS and disease-free controls were enrolled in the study. VEPs and PERG were recorded in all subjetcs.

Ability of optical imaging devices to detect early structural damage in ocular hypertension.

We evaluated the ability of functional and structural technologies to detect early damage in ocular-hypertensive (OHT) eyes with normal standard automated perimetry (SAP) in 48 normal and 130 ocular-hypertensive subjects. We found that optical imaging devices may detect early damage in the RNFL and the optic nerve head in ocular-hypertensive eyes with no defect in SAP.

[Relationship between standard automated perimetry and optic nerve head topography performed with the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph].

Purpose: To determine the correlations between optic nerve head (ONH) parameters measured with the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT), and the main outcomes of standard automated perimetry (SAP) in normal, ocular hypertensive, glaucoma suspects and glaucomatous subjects.

Methods: Four hundred and twenty-three patients were enrolled in the study and classified into four groups depending on baseline intraocular pressure, optic nerve head morphology, and SAP results: 87 normal eyes, 192 ocular hypertensive eyes, 70 glaucoma suspects and 74 glaucomatous eyes. In the different diagnostic groups, Pearson's correlation coefficients were calculated between ONH parameters and mean deviation, pattern standard deviation (PSD), number of altered points in each quadrant of the visual field (superior-nasal, inferior-nasal, superior-temporal and inferior-temporal), number of points altered at different probability levels, and threshold values at each point of SAP.

[Atrophy of the retinal nerve fibre layer in multiple sclerosis patients. Prospective study with two years follow-up].

Objective: To evaluate the changes over two years in the retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS). To compare the ability of optical coherence tomography (OCT), scanning laser polarimetry (GDx), visual evoked potentials (VEP) and visual field examination to detect axonal loss in these patients.

Material And Methods: Fifty eyes of MS patients without episodes or optic neuritis during follow-up were enrolled in this study.