The impact of glaucoma on the quality of life of patients in Norway. II. Patient response correlated to objective data.

Purpose: To elucidate the relationship between the visual difficulties reported by patients treated for glaucoma and their objective functional damage, and to evaluate the reliability of the patient responses.

Methods: Questionnaires concerning quality of life filled in at home by 589 patients treated for chronic open angle glaucoma were correlated to corresponding questionnaires returned from their ophthalmologists.

Results: Few of our patients had a visual field damage judged to be of functional significance.

The impact of glaucoma on the quality of life of patients in Norway. I. Results from a self-administered questionnaire.

Purpose: To evaluate the feelings and experiences of patients living with glaucoma.

Methods: A questionnaire was delivered to patients willing to take part, at a regular visit to their ophthalmologist, for filling in anonymously at home. A total of 589 questionnaires were returned.

The medium and long-term efficacy of primary argon laser trabeculoplasty in avoiding topical medication in open angle glaucoma.

Purpose: To study the medium and long-term efficacy of primary argon laser trabeculoplasty in open angle glaucoma with especial emphasis on avoidance of additional medical therapy.

Methods: Records of 168 patients with chronic open angle glaucoma or pseudoexfoliation glaucoma who underwent primary argon laser trabeculoplasty between 1987 and 1995 were studied retrospectively (duration of follow-up 1-8 years, mean 4.1 years).

Visual field prognosis in early glaucoma. A long-term clinical follow-up.

Fifty-four eyes of 45 patients with ocular hypertension developed early glaucomatous optic disc or visual field changes after a mean follow-up of 5.1 years without therapy. These changes initiated antiglaucomatous treatment, and the eyes have been followed further on therapy for 2-14 years (mean 8.

[Primary laser trabeculoplasty in glaucoma. A resource saving treatment].

During the last ten years argon laser trabeculoplasty has been shown to be a very useful tool in the treatment of glaucoma when medical therapy has failed. In the present study laser was used as primary therapy in 27 patients with newly detected glaucoma. Pretreatment with topical timolol gave an immediate pressure drop in all eyes, and the dreaded acute pressure rise after laser treatment was avoided.

Primary argon laser trabeculoplasty after pretreatment with timolol. A safe and economic therapy of early glaucoma.

In the treatment of glaucoma there are advantages and disadvantages associated with both medical, surgical and laser therapy. Early pressure rise has been found to be the main complication after laser treatment. In the present study primary argon laser trabeculoplasty (PALT) was carried out in 180 degrees of the trabecular meshwork with an effect of 0.

Early diagnosis of glaucoma. II. The value of the initial examination in ocular hypertension.

In a group of 46 patients with moderately elevated intraocular pressure (22-30 mmHg), signs of early glaucoma were found in half of them after a follow-up of 5-7.5 years. Most of the patients showed only a small increase in optic disc cupping revealed by stereophotography.

Early diagnosis of glaucoma. The value of successive stereophotography of the optic disc.

A group of 46 patients with ocular hypertension (initial pressure 22-30 mmHg) have been followed prospectively for 5-7.5 years, with special emphasis on optic disc changes. A stereophoto of the disc was taken at each consultation.

Experimental tonography on enucleated human eyes. II. The loss of intraocular fluid caused by tonography.

In clinical work, the loss of intraocular fluid caused by tonography (dV) is usually calculated according to the formula of Grant and Friedenwald. The validity of this formula has been tested by comparing the dV calculated from known factors in the formula with the dV measured directly on enucleated eyes. Our results show a good correlation between the two methods, especially when the rigidity coefficient at the beginning of tonography is used in the calculations.

Experimental tonography on enucleated human eyes. I. The validity of Grant's tonography formula.

When newer tables for parameters in Grant's formula for tonography are used, one obtains far higher values for the outflow facility than those generally accepted. The aim of this iinvestigation has, therefore, been to test the validity of the tonography formula. The outflow facility determined by constant-rate perfusion in enucleated eyes has been compared with the results of tonography on the same eyes in the steady-state condition.