Effect of the menstrual cycle on standard achromatic and blue-on-yellow visual field analysis of women with migraine.

Background: It has been postulated that migraine and glaucoma may have common vascular causative factors. Significant sex-based differences in the incidence of many important ocular conditions raise the possibility that estrogens may have direct effects on the eye. We performed a study to determine the effect of the menstrual cycle on standard achromatic automated perimetry (SAP) and short-wavelength automated perimetry (SWAP) (blue-on-yellow perimetry) of women with migraine.

Menstrual cycle-dependent changes in visual field analysis of healthy women.

Purpose: To determine the effect of menstrual cycle phases on the visual field analysis of healthy females.

Material And Methods: One randomly selected eye each of 59 healthy normally menstruating women, and of 54 men with no systemic and ocular problems, other than refractive error, were included in the study. Subjects underwent complete ocular examination, and standard achromatic perimetric (SAP) and short-wavelength automated perimetric (SWAP) analysis in both follicular (7th to 10th day of the cycle) and luteal phases (days 3-7 before the menstrual bleeding) of the menstrual cycle.

Menstrual cycle dependent changes in blue-on-yellow visual field analysis of young diabetic women with severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

Purpose: To evaluate menstrual cycle dependent changes on blue-on-yellow visual fields of diabetic women, and to compare the results with those of healthy women.

Methods: Left eyes of 93 normally menstruating women were included in the study, comprising 45 with type-1 diabetes mellitus and severe non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy and 48 healthy controls. All subjects underwent baseline complete ocular examination and achromatic visual field analysis.