Comparative studies of RNFL thickness measured by OCT with global index of visual fields in patients with ocular hypertension and early open angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To compare the functional changes in visual fields with optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings in patients with ocular hypertension, open angle glaucoma, and suspected glaucoma. In addition, our purpose is to evaluate the correlation of global indices with the structural glaucomatous defect, to assess their statistical importance in all the groups of our study, and to estimate their validity to the clinical practice.

Methods: One hundred sixty nine eyes (140 patients) were enrolled.

Correlation of central corneal thickness and axial length to the optic disc and peripapillary atrophy among healthy individuals, glaucoma and ocular hypertension patients.

Purpose: Clinical observational study for the correlation between the central corneal thickness (CCT), axial length (AXL), optic disc area (D), cupping area (C) and peripapillary atrophy (PPA), in healthy eyes (group A), eyes with primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) (group B) and eyes with ocular hypertension (OH) (group C), in order to assess the possible contribution of this correlation to the diagnosis or prognosis of glaucoma.

Methods: Ninety eyes of 90 persons participated in the study (30 eyes of 30 persons in each group). All eyes underwent intraocular pressure measurement, visual field testing, endothelial cell count (ECC), measurement of the CCT and AXL, and gonioscopy.

Course of macular edema in uveitis under medical treatment.

Objective: To describe the response of uveitic macular edema to various treatment methods using optical coherence tomography (OCT).

Methods: This is a prospective study of consecutive uveitis patients with macular edema in at least one eye. The patients received medical treatment.

Study of patients with ocular hypertension with scanning laser polarimetry and short-wavelength automatic perimetry.

Aims: To compare and correlate retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measurements obtained by scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) with defects detected by short-wavelength automatic perimetry (SWAP) in eyes with ocular hypertension (OHT).

Methods: SLP and SWAP were performed in 96 eyes of 48 consecutive patients with OHT.

Results: Twenty-five eyes (26%) had SWAP visual field defects.

Contrast sensitivity in amblyopia: the fellow eye of untreated and successfully treated amblyopes.

Purpose: We sought to investigate contrast sensitivity on the fellow eyes of amblyopic and successfully treated amblyopic subjects.

Methods: Contrast sensitivity was tested monocularly on both eyes of 48 amblyopic patients (mean age, 11.51 years) and of 22 successfully treated amblyopic subjects (visual acuity 20/20 in each eye; mean age, 11.