Comparison of Matrix with Humphrey Field Analyzer II with SITA.

Purpose: To study the performance of the Matrix perimeter compared with the Humphrey Field Analyzer II (HFA) with the Swedish Interactive Thresholding Algorithm over the range of contrast sensitivities each machine could estimate.

Methods: Fifty stable glaucoma subjects at various stages of disease and three normal subjects had visual fields testing done on five different days within 8 weeks with both perimeters. Intraclass correlation coefficient of mean deviation, pattern standard deviation, and the SD of repeat measurements were evaluated.

Estimating the rate of retinal ganglion cell loss in glaucoma.

Purpose: To present and evaluate a new method of estimating rates of retinal ganglion cell (RGC) loss in glaucoma by combining structural and functional measurements.

Design: Observational cohort study.

Methods: The study included 213 eyes of 213 glaucoma patients followed up for an average of 4.

Progression of patterns (POP): a machine classifier algorithm to identify glaucoma progression in visual fields.

Purpose: We evaluated Progression of Patterns (POP) for its ability to identify progression of glaucomatous visual field (VF) defects.

Methods: POP uses variational Bayesian independent component mixture model (VIM), a machine learning classifier (MLC) developed previously. VIM separated Swedish Interactive Thresholding Algorithm (SITA) VFs from a set of 2,085 normal and glaucomatous eyes into nine axes (VF patterns): seven glaucomatous.

Quantifying discordance between structure and function measurements in the clinical assessment of glaucoma.

Objective: To evaluate a new method of quantifying and visualizing discordance between structural and functional measurements in glaucomatous eyes by predicting the visual field (VF) from retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT) using a bayesian radial basis function.

Methods: Five GDx VCC RNFLT scans and 5 Humphrey 24-2 Swedish Interactive Thresholding Algorithm VF tests were performed for 50 glaucomatous eyes from 50 patients. A best-available estimate (BAE) of the true VF was calculated as the pointwise median of these 5 replications.

Reproducibility of pattern electroretinogram in glaucoma patients with a range of severity of disease with the new glaucoma paradigm.

Purpose: To determine the reproducibility of the pattern electroretinogram with the new Pattern Electroretinogram for Glaucoma (PERGLA) recording paradigm in glaucoma patients with a range of severity.

Design: Experimental study.

Participants: Fifty-three glaucoma patients were recruited for the study (mean age +/- standard deviation [SD], 69+/-11 years).

Reproducibility of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber thickness measurements with stratus OCT in glaucomatous eyes.

Purpose: To determine the reproducibility of Stratus OCT peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measurements in glaucomatous eyes.

Design: Experimental study.

Participants: Fifty-one stable glaucoma patients with a range of severity.

Ophthalmological and biological features of the oculorespiratory syndrome after influenza vaccination.

We report the ophthalmological and laboratory findings of 6 patients who, after influenza vaccination, were affected by oculorespiratory syndrome (ORS), complaining of red eyes, photophobia, blurred vision, palpebral edema, ocular pain and itching, and conjunctival secretions. The conjunctivae were mildly hyperemic with few follicles, but the ophthalmological examination findings were otherwise normal. Patients had lymphopenia and decreased levels of the total hemolytic complement and the third and fourth component of the complement.