[Colour Doppler imaging in normal pressure glaucoma patients].

Aim: Ocular hemodynamics is of great interest in glaucoma, especially since vascular disturbances may play a pathogenetic role in disease development. To investigate the hemodynamic differences between normal pressure glaucoma patients and normal volunteers, flow velocities of the retrobulbar vessels were measured by colour Doppler imaging.

Method: 15 patients with normal pressure glaucoma (NPG) and 15 healthy volunteers underwent colour Doppler imaging (CDI) of the retrobulbar vessels.

Asymmetric visual field loss and retrobulbar haemodynamics in primary open-angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To investigate interocular differences in retrobulbar flow velocities in patients with asymmetric glaucomatous visual field loss.

Methods: Twenty-five patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) and asymmetric visual field loss were included in this study. Asymmetric visual field loss was defined as a difference of the global index mean deviation (MD) >6 dB between the two eyes.

Fluorescein filling defects of the optic nerve head in normal tension glaucoma, primary open-angle glaucoma, ocular hypertension and healthy controls.

Background: To evaluate fluorescein filling defects of the optic nerve head in normal tension glaucoma (NTG), primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG), ocular hypertension (OHT) and controls.

Methods: Forty patients with NTG (mean age 55 +/- 10 years), 40 patients with POAG (mean age 55 +/- 11 years), 40 patients with OHT (mean age 53 +/- 13 years), and 40 age-matched controls (mean age 54 +/- 11 years) were included in a prospective study. Video fluorescein angiograms were performed by means of a scanning laser ophthalmoscope.

24-h blood pressure monitoring in normal tension glaucoma: night-time blood pressure variability.

Systemic arterial hypotension, hypertension and altered ocular blood flow are known risk factors in glaucoma. In this study, 24-h ambulatory blood pressure monitoring was performed in patients with normal tension glaucoma (NTG) and controls to evaluate blood pressure variability. In all, 51 patients with NTG and 28 age-matched controls were included in this prospective study.